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A02099 Summary:

BILL NOA02099
 
SAME ASSAME AS S03520
 
SPONSORFall
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add §553-l, Pub Auth L
 
Exempts Staten Island residents from Verrazzano-Narrows bridge tolls; directs the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority to create applications for such exemptions.
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A02099 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A2099
 
SPONSOR: Fall
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the public authorities law, in relation to exempting Staten Island residents from Verrazzano-Narrows bridge tolls   PURPOSE: This legislation intent is to exempt Staten Island residents from being assessed tolls on the Verrazzanno-Narrows bridge.   SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:• Section 1. The public authority's taw is amended by adding a new section 553-1 to read VerrazzanoNarrows bridge; Staten Island resident exemption. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, but subject to agreements with noteholder and bondholders, the authority shall exempt residents of the borough of Staten Island using a New York customer service E-ZPass account on the Verrazzano-Narrows bridge from the payment of any tolls thereof, provided, however, that such exemption shall not apply to trips made by vehicles that are used for commercial purposes. Application for such toll exemption shall be made in such manner as shall be prescribed by the authority and shall contain such information as the-authority may reasonably require. Section 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have become law. Effective immediate, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.   JUSTIFICATION: Staten Island being an island where access to a from the borough is via bridges, one being the Verrazzano-Narrows bridge where its current Levy is already the priciest in the nation. Only the 23-mile Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel in Virginia, a chain of six crossings that costs $15 each way, comes close. Staten Island is the only borough that burdens its residents with tolls to access other boroughs and the State of New Jersey. Tolls put our businesses at a competitive disadvantage, impact our abil- ity to visit family, burdens families that wish to access faith-based meetings and impose a heavy financial burden on commuters, especially residents that are financially burdened. With the implementation of federal infrastructure funding and congestion pricing, the residents of Staten Island should benefit by being allowed an exemption on at least one of its more prominent access points, the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.   EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have become law. Effective immediate, the addition, amendment and/or repeat of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
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A02099 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          2099
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 15, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M. of A. FALL -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law,  in  relation  to  exempting
          Staten Island residents from Verrazzano-Narrows bridge tolls
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. The public authorities law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 553-l to read as follows:
     3    §  553-l. Verrazzano-Narrows bridge; Staten Island resident exemption.
     4  Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, but subject to agree-
     5  ments with noteholders and bondholders, the authority shall exempt resi-
     6  dents of the borough of Staten Island using a New York customer  service
     7  E-ZPass account on the Verrazzano-Narrows bridge from the payment of any
     8  tolls  therefor,  provided, however, that such exemption shall not apply
     9  to trips made by vehicles that are used for commercial purposes.  Appli-
    10  cation for such toll exemption shall be made in such manner as shall  be
    11  prescribed  by  the  authority and shall contain such information as the
    12  authority may reasonably require.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    14  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    15  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    16  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    17  on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05711-01-5
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