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Home/Bills/S 1942New York · 2025–2026 Legislative Session
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S 1942: Increases Rockland county's annual minimum allocation through the MTA Dutchess-Orange-Rockland Fund (DORF) from two million dollars to ten million dollars.

New York · Senate · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified January 8, 2026

What S 1942 does, verified January 8, 2026

The bill aims to amend the Public Authorities Law to allocate funds from the Corporate Transportation Account to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Dutchess, Orange, and Rockland fund. The fund, created by section 1270-b, will receive quarterly transfers starting from 1989. The allocated amounts are as follows: - Dutchess account: $1.5 million - Orange account: $1.5 million - Rockland account: $10 million The changes will take effect immediately.

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Last action: REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION (2026-01-07)Alert me
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Jan. 07, 2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
Jan. 14, 2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 14, 2025 · 257 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1942 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. WEBER -- 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 Rockland county and the metropolitan transportation authority special assist- ance fund The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 of section 1270-a of the 2 public authorities law, as amended by section 29 of part O of chapter 61 3 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows: 4 (b) Commencing in calendar year nineteen hundred eighty-nine, and in 5 each subsequent year thereafter, the authority shall transfer in four 6 equal quarterly amounts from the corporate transportation account to the 7 metropolitan transportation authority Dutchess, Orange and Rockland fund 8 created by section twelve hundred seventy-b of this title the following 9 amounts: to the Dutchess account of such fund the sum of one million 10 five hundred thousand dollars; to the Orange account of such fund the 11 sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars; and to the Rockland 12 account of such fund the sum of [two] ten million dollars. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03504-01-5 
Text of S 1942 as introduced, from the official record. Connect Plus keeps every version and highlights what changed.Compare versions
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