A 5071: Allows the thruway authority to offer discounted tokens to residents of Rockland and Westchester counties for Mario M. Cuomo bridge crossings.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5071 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 12, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. P. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to allowing the New York state thruway authority to offer a discounted toll rate to residents of Rockland and Westchester counties for Mario M. Cuomo bridge crossings 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 354-a to read as follows: 3 § 354-a. Resident discount. Notwithstanding any inconsistent 4 provision of law, but subject to agreements with noteholders and bond- 5 holders, the authority shall offer a discounted toll rate for Mario M. 6 Cuomo bridge crossings to residents of the county of Rockland and the 7 county of Westchester and may, except as otherwise provided in this 8 section, regulate the use thereof. The discount for residents of the 9 county of Rockland and the county of Westchester shall entitle such 10 residents to crossings over the Mario M. Cuomo bridge at a reduced cost 11 of sixty per centum of the regular crossing fare imposed on nonresidents 12 of the county of Rockland and the county of Westchester. In the event 13 the authority shall impose a surcharge in addition to the regular toll 14 for crossings over the Mario M. Cuomo bridge, such surcharge shall not 15 be deemed a part of the regular crossing fare for purposes of this 16 section, and the discount offered to the residents of the county of 17 Rockland and the county of Westchester as herein provided shall also 18 entitle such residents to a permanent exemption from the payment of any 19 such surcharge in an amount equal to the amount of any such surcharge 20 imposed during calendar year two thousand twenty-five. Application for 21 such discount shall be made in such manner as prescribed by the authori- 22 ty and shall contain such information as the authority may reasonably 23 require. 24 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07605-01-5