New York A 170: Requires the metropolitan transportation authority to post signage over mass transit seats indicating that individuals should give up their seats for the elderly, pregnant and disabled

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A00170 Summary:

BILL NOA00170 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORRosenthal

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COSPNSROtis, Raga

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §1266-n, Pub Auth L

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Requires the metropolitan transportation authority to post signage over mass transit seats indicating that individuals should give up their seats for the elderly, pregnant and disabled; provides such signage shall be conspicuously posted and visible from all seats; provides costs and expenses to be paid through appropriated funds.

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BILL NOA00170 

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01/08/2025referred to ways and means

01/07/2026referred to ways and means

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 170

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, OTIS, RAGA -- read once and referred
 to the Committee on Ways and Means

 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to priority
 seating for pregnant, elderly, and disabled passengers

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

 1 Section 1. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new
 2 section 1266-n to read as follows:
 3 § 1266-n. Priority seating for pregnant, elderly, and disabled passen-
 4 gers. 1. The authority shall post signage, which may take the form of a
 5 sticker, in each subway car and bus, in the manner and of the size and
 6 number, sufficient to be viewed by passengers in all parts of such
 7 subway car and bus which states, either graphically or in the languages
 8 the authority deems appropriate: "Please give up your seat for pregnant,
 9 elderly, or disabled passengers."
 10 2. The authority shall post signage, which may take the form of a
 11 sticker, designating certain seats in such subway car and bus as
 12 reserved for pregnant, elderly or disabled passengers. Such signage
 13 shall state, either graphically or in the languages the authority deems
 14 appropriate: "These seats are reserved for pregnant, elderly, and disa-
 15 bled passengers."
 16 3. In addition to the signage required in subdivisions one and two of
 17 this section, such information shall be included in any LED banner signs
 18 and any announcements made in subway cars or buses.
 19 4. The authority shall not pay any costs or expenses related to prior-
 20 ity seating signage for pregnant, elderly, and disabled passengers from
 21 its operating or capital budgets and may only implement priority seating
 22 signage for pregnant, elderly, and disabled passengers with funds appro-
 23 priated to it by the state of New York for such purpose.
 24 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 25 it shall have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01258-01-5

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