STATE OF NEW YORK
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5130
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 10, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring the
metropolitan transportation authority to create ten-year capital
program plans
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of subdivision 1 of section
2 1269-b of the public authorities law, paragraph (a) as amended and para-
3 graphs (b) and (c) as added by chapter 637 of the laws of 1996, are
4 amended and two new paragraphs (d) and (e) are added to read as follows:
5 (a) On or before October first, nineteen hundred eighty-one, and on or
6 before October first of every fifth year thereafter, through and includ-
7 ing October first, nineteen hundred ninety-one, the authority shall
8 submit to the metropolitan transportation authority capital program
9 review board two capital program plans for the five year period commenc-
10 ing January first of the following year;
11 (b) [not] Not later than ten days after the effective date of this
12 paragraph the authority shall submit to the metropolitan transportation
13 authority capital program review board two capital program plans for the
14 five-year period commencing January first, nineteen hundred ninety-five;
15 [and]
16 (c) [on] On or before October first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine and
17 every fifth year thereafter through and including October first, two
18 thousand fourteen, the authority shall submit to the metropolitan trans-
19 portation authority capital program review board two capital program
20 plans for the five-year period commencing January first of the following
21 year[.];
22 (d) On or before October first, two thousand nineteen, the authority
23 shall submit to the metropolitan transportation capital program review
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 board two capital program plans for the ten-year period commencing Janu-
2 ary first of the following year; and
3 (e) On or before January thirty-first, two thousand twenty-nine, and
4 every tenth year thereafter, the authority shall submit to the metropol-
5 itan transportation capital program review board two capital program
6 plans for the ten-year period commencing January first of the following
7 year.
8 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 7 of section 1269-b of the public
9 authorities law, as amended by chapter 929 of the laws of 1986, is
10 amended to read as follows:
11 (a) The authority may from time to time submit to the metropolitan
12 transportation authority capital program review board amendments or
13 modifications to any [five-year] ten-year plan theretofore submitted,
14 and shall submit such an amendment or modification (i) if the estimated
15 cost of any capital element for which a specified dollar amount was
16 proposed to be expended exceeds the amount set forth in the approved
17 plan for such element by more than ten percent, (ii) if with respect to
18 a particularly described capital element for which only an estimate of
19 projected cost has been provided in the plan there is a material change
20 in the description of such element from that contained in the approved
21 plan, (iii) if a capital element not previously included in the approved
22 plan is proposed to be undertaken and its cost, together with the cost
23 of other elements included in category (l) of the plan, exceeds by ten
24 percent the amount provided for such category (l) elements, (iv) if the
25 authority shall propose to change by more than one year the time when
26 any capital element is proposed to be initiated or the effect of such
27 change will be to increase the estimated amount of capital funding
28 required in any year covered by the plan by more than twenty percent, or
29 (v) if the availability of funding sources changes to the degree to
30 which the authority or the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority are
31 precluded from exercising the authorization provided in subdivision six
32 of this section and the authority wishes to do so.
33 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
