New York S 284: Directs the board to submit a recommendation regarding the central business district toll amounts to the legislature and recommending a privacy risk plan

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S00284 Summary:

BILL NOS00284 

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SAME ASSAME AS A02157

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SPONSORRHOADS

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COSPNSRBORRELLO, GRIFFO, O'MARA, WEIK

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §553-k, Pub Auth L

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Directs the board to submit a recommendation regarding the central business district toll amounts to the legislature and also to recommend a privacy risk plan.

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BILL NOS00284 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 284

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. RHOADS, BORRELLO, GRIFFO, O'MARA, WEIK -- 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 the board
 submitting a recommendation regarding the central business district
 toll amounts to the legislature and recommending a privacy risk plan

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

 1 Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature finds and declares that
 2 legislative accountability is a core element in any democratic polity.
 3 The commuter tax legislation tried to sidestep that accountability by
 4 passing off the burden of establishing the commuter tax rates to
 5 unelected bureaucrats and announcing such rates the week after the 2020
 6 election. This legislation would restore the crucial element of legis-
 7 lative accountability by requiring that the legislature approve any rate
 8 established for the commuter tax.
 9 § 2. Subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 553-k of the public authorities
 10 law, as added by section 8 of subpart A of part ZZZ of chapter 59 of the
 11 laws of 2019, are amended to read as follows:
 12 2. The board shall make a recommendation regarding the central busi-
 13 ness district toll amounts to be established pursuant to article forty-
 14 four-C of the vehicle and traffic law, which shall include a variable-
 15 pricing structure, no [sooner] later than [November] April fifteenth,
 16 two thousand [twenty and no later than December thirty-first, two thou-
 17 sand twenty, or no later than thirty days before a central business
 18 district tolling program is initiated, whichever is later] twenty-seven.
 19 Such recommendation shall be submitted to the legislature for approval.
 20 The legislature shall vote on such recommendation by June thirty-first,
 21 two thousand twenty-seven. The authority shall only be permitted to
 22 establish central business toll district amounts if approved by the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01041-01-5

 S. 284 2

 1 legislature. If approved by the legislature, such recommendation shall
 2 be submitted to the board of the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority
 3 for consideration before the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority
 4 board may approve central business district toll amounts that may be
 5 established and adopted.
 6 3. For purposes of recommending a central business district toll or
 7 tolls in addition to the goal of reducing traffic within the central
 8 business district, the board shall, at minimum, ensure that annual
 9 revenues and fees collected under such program, less costs of such
 10 program, provide for revenues into the central business district tolling
 11 capital lockbox fund, established pursuant to section five hundred
 12 fifty-three-j of this [chapter] title, necessary to fund fifteen billion
 13 dollars for capital projects for the 2020 to [2024] 2027 capital
 14 program, and any additional revenues above that amount to be available
 15 for any successor program. The board shall consider for purposes of its
 16 recommendations, factors including but not limited to, traffic patterns,
 17 traffic mitigation measures, operating costs, public impact, public
 18 safety, hardships, vehicle type, discounts for motorcycles, peak and
 19 off-peak rates and environmental impacts, including but not limited to