New York S 4594: Creates the New York autism spectrum disorders treatment, training and research council and provides for the powers and duties of the council

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S04594 Summary:

BILL NOS04594A

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SAME ASSAME AS A05277-B

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SPONSORMARTINEZ

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COSPNSRMATTERA, MURRAY, PALUMBO, RHOADS

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MLTSPNSR

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Designates the Nassau-Suffolk transportation coordinating committee as the metropolitan planning organization for Long Island; provides for the withdrawal of the Nassau-Suffolk coordinating committee from the New York Metropolitan transportation council.

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BILL NOS04594A

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02/10/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

02/06/2026AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO TRANSPORTATION

02/06/2026PRINT NUMBER 4594A

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4594--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 10, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. MARTINEZ, MATTERA, MURRAY, PALUMBO, RHOADS -- read
 twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the
 Committee on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on Trans-
 portation in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee
 discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
 to said committee

 AN ACT relating to designating the Nassau-Suffolk transportation coordi-
 nating committee as the metropolitan planning organization for Long
 Island

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

 1 Section 1. Nassau-Suffolk transportation coordinating committee. The
 2 Nassau-Suffolk transportation coordinating committee ("the committee")
 3 seeks to withdraw from the New York metropolitan transportation council
 4 (NYMTC) formed in 1982 pursuant to an MOU adopted by its member organ-
 5 izations and approved by the governor and the legislature through resol-
 6 ution. The Nassau-Suffolk transportation coordinating committee shall,
 7 upon passage of this act and approval of the governor, be designated to
 8 act as the metropolitan planning organization for purposes of receipt of
 9 federal transportation assistance for the counties of Nassau and Suffolk
 10 and, in cooperation with the state and publicly owned operators of mass
 11 transportation services, for carrying out the urban transportation plan-
 12 ning process specified in 23 CFR 450 and 49 CFR 613 and other applicable
 13 federal regulations.
 14 § 2. Purpose. 1. It is the purpose of this legislation to delineate
 15 the roles and responsibilities and administrative, decision making, and
 16 staffing arrangements for the committee to carry out transportation
 17 planning and programming to continue Nassau and Suffolk counties' quali-
 18 fication for federal transportation assistance.
 19 2. The Nassau-Suffolk transportation coordinating committee is contin-
 20 ued, with voting membership to include:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02736-05-6

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 1 (a) the Nassau county executive;
 2 (b) the Suffolk county executive;
 3 (c) the chair of the metropolitan transportation authority;
 4 (d) the commissioner of the New York state department of transporta-
 5 tion; and
 6 (e) the chair of the Long Island regional planning council.
 7 3. The foregoing representation of the participating units of govern-
 8 ment is not intended to indicate a proportional or any other kind of
 9 weighting for voting purposes and such representation shall remain in
 10 effect only as long as committee decisions are reached by consensus as
 11 defined in this act.
 12 4. Advisory, non-voting membership on the committee shall include the
 13 federal highway administration, urban mass transportation adminis-
 14 tration, United States environmental protection agency, and the New York
 15 state department of environmental conservation.
 16 5. Members of the committee may be represented by designated substi-
 17 tutes. Such designation shall be in writing to the secretary of the
 18 committee.
 19 § 3. Officers. 1. Executives of each county shall serve as the perma-
 20 nent co-chairs of the committee with functional responsibility for
 21 committee operations.
 22 2. The transport