 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2271
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 22, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation
 
        AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation  to  providing  free
          public transportation for senior citizens
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The transportation law is amended by adding a  new  section
     2  15-d to read as follows:
     3    §  15-d.  Public  transportation  for senior citizens. Senior citizens
     4  shall receive use of public transportation free of charge.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     6  it shall have become a law, provided, however, that the commissioner  of
     7  transportation  shall promulgate any rules and regulations necessary for
     8  the implementation of this act on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00122-01-9
Provides for free public transportation of senior citizens

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