STATE OF NEW YORK
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7861--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 24, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK, FALL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions -- recommitted
to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions in
accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to prohibiting
certain public transportation authorities from procuring certain
commuter vehicles which use fossil fuels
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2879 of the public authorities law
2 is amended by adding a new paragraph (q) to read as follows:
3 (q) Public transportation authorities serving metropolitan regions
4 with a cumulative population of five hundred thousand or more residents
5 shall be prohibited from procuring commuter buses, passenger vans,
6 liveries, and other commuter vehicles which travel primarily on public
7 roads which use fossil fuels, as defined by section 10-103 of the energy
8 law, on and after January first, two thousand twenty-eight.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10949-02-9