New York S 174: Enacts the "commuter rail employee rights protection act"

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S00174 Summary:

BILL NOS00174 

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SAME ASSAME AS A11149

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SPONSORCOMRIE

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COSPNSRADDABBO, CLEARE, FERNANDEZ, JACKSON, MATTERA, MAYER, MURRAY, PALUMBO, PARKER, RHOADS, TEDISCO,
 WEBER

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MLTSPNSR

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Enacts the "commuter rail employee rights protection act".

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BILL NOS00174 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 174

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, ADDABBO, CLEARE, FERNANDEZ, JACKSON, MATT-
 ERA, MAYER, MURRAY, PALUMBO, PARKER, RHOADS, TEDISCO, WEBER -- read
 twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the
 Committee on Transportation

 AN ACT concerning protections for employees of the Metro-North Commuter
 Railroad company and the Long Island Rail Road company, wholly owned
 corporations of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority operating as
 common carriers engaged in interstate commerce

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "commuter rail employee rights protection act".
 3 § 2. The Metro-North Commuter Railroad company and the Long Island
 4 Rail Road company and any of their successors and assigns who operate,
 5 manage, or develop the railroad system within the counties of Suffolk,
 6 Nassau, Queens, Kings, New York, Bronx, Westchester, Rockland, Orange,
 7 Ulster, Putnam, Dutchess, Sullivan, Greene, Columbia, Albany, and Rens-
 8 selaer waive any defense of jurisdictional or substantive sovereign
 9 immunity arising out of any state or federal claim or cause of action
 10 against it or its successors and assigns. In addition, the Metro-North
 11 Commuter Railroad company and the Long Island Rail Road company and any
 12 of their successors and assigns who operate, manage, or develop any
 13 municipally owned and operated commuter railroad operating within the
 14 general system of railroading within the state of New York shall be
 15 subject to the provisions of all federal railroad laws, including the
 16 "Railway Labor Act" (45 U.S.C. s.151 et seq.), the "Federal Employers
 17 Liability Act" (45 U.S.C. s.51 et seq.), the "Railroad Retirement Act of
 18 1937" (45 U.S.C. s. 231 et seq.), the "Railroad Retirement Tax Act" (26
 19 U.S.C. s. 3201 et seq.), the Federal Railroad Safety Laws (49 U.S.C.
 20 s.20101 et seq.), whistleblower laws, discrimination laws, and the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00718-01-5

 S. 174 2

 1 "Interstate Commerce Act" (49 U.S.C. s.10501 et seq). Such waiver shall
 2 be retroactive to any lawsuit currently pending in any state or federal
 3 court in the state of New York.
 4 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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