Changes the time for submission of the operating and capital budget of the metropolitan transportation authority from July to September and allows the MTA to submit the operating and capital budget as part of its strategic business plan.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6545
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 5, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. COOK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GOTTFRIED
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authori-
ties and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law and the transportation law,
in relation to metropolitan transportation authority operating and
capital budget submission requirements
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 1 of section 1269-d of
2 the public authorities law, as amended by chapter 929 of the laws of
3 1986, is amended to read as follows:
4 On or before July first, nineteen hundred eighty-seven, the authority
5 shall submit to the governor a strategic operation plan for the five
6 year period commencing January first of the following year. One compo-
7 nent of the plan shall be for the bus and subway services of the New
8 York city transit authority and its subsidiaries and for the Staten
9 Island rapid transit operating authority; the other component shall be
10 for the commuter railroad services, not including the Staten Island
11 rapid transit operating authority, under the jurisdiction of the author-
12 ity. The plan may be amended as required but shall be updated at least
13 annually. Beginning with the plan for the period commencing January
14 first, two thousand fifteen, each annual update shall be submitted to
15 the governor on or before the September first prior to the beginning of
16 the plan period. Each annual update may also include the information
17 required under section seventeen-a of the transportation law and may be
18 submitted in satisfaction of the requirements of such section. The plan
19 shall include, but need not be limited to, the following:
20 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 17-a of the transportation law, as added
21 by chapter 57 of the laws of 1975, is amended to read as follows:
22 1. Each regional transportation authority shall submit to the gover-
23 nor, the commissioner, the chairman and ranking minority member of the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 senate finance committee, and the chairman and ranking minority member
2 of the assembly ways and means committee annually, not later than the
3 first day of October in a manner to be prescribed by the state director
4 of the budget, information on operations and capital construction,
5 setting forth the estimated receipts and expenditures for its next
6 fiscal year and its current fiscal year. The metropolitan transporta-
7 tion authority and its affiliates may submit this information as part of
8 its strategic operation plan as required under section twelve hundred
9 sixty-nine-d of the public authorities law.
10 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
