S 7996: Requires the metropolitan transportation authority submit to the legislature and publish on its shared internet website an annual open data plan; requires the MTA to publish all customer surveys and complaint data, incident report data, police incident and arrest data collected by the authority or any of its affiliates and subsidiaries no later than January 1, 2026.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7996 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE May 15, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- 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 open data reporting by the metropolitan transportation authority The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 1279-i of the public authorities 2 law, as added by chapter 482 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 4. The authority and its subsidiaries and affiliates shall make their 5 publishable MTA data available on its website and the open data website 6 as follows: 7 (a) The authority shall create a catalogue of publishable MTA data 8 within one hundred eighty days of the effective date of this section. 9 Such catalogue shall be updated as necessary, but at a minimum annually; 10 (b) The metropolitan transportation authority shall within one hundred 11 eighty days of the effective date of this section, submit to the legis- 12 lature and publish on its shared internet website a schedule for making 13 its publishable MTA data publicly available. Such schedule shall provide 14 for updating the data catalogue as appropriate; [and] 15 (c) The metropolitan transportation authority shall create schedules 16 for publishing all publishable MTA data within three years of the effec- 17 tive date of this section[.]; 18 (d) The metropolitan transportation authority shall submit to the 19 legislature and publish on its shared internet website an annual open 20 data plan that includes, but is not limited to, a listing of the new 21 datasets published, a listing of updated datasets, and information about 22 public engagements sessions, number of full time staff dedicated to the 23 open data initiative, and progress made in publishing datasets pursuant 24 to the catalogue required by this section; EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD11298-01-5 
 S. 7996 2 1 (e) The metropolitan transportation authority shall publish all 2 customer survey and complaint data collected by the authority or any of 3 its affiliates and subsidiaries as required by this section no later 4 than January first, two thousand twenty-six. Such published datasets 5 shall include, but not be limited to, any tabular summary, quantifica- 6 tion or table of the responses to a survey or complaint data, the number 7 of participants of any such survey, a listing of all survey questions, 8 the number of complaints or commendations received each month, and the 9 type of complaint or commendation. Data regarding customer surveys, 10 customer satisfaction, cleanliness, complaints, or commendations shall 11 include the operating agency, line, station, stop or other location the 12 customer responses or complaints are referring to. Such datasets shall 13 also include, but not be limited to, any demographic data submitted by 14 customers or complainants; 15 (f) The metropolitan transportation authority shall publish all inci- 16 dent report data collected by the authority or any of its affiliates and 17 subsidiaries as required by this section no later than January first, 18 two thousand twenty-six. Data regarding incidents shall include the 19 operating agency, line, station, stop, or other location and shall 20 include incident details as reported to or by the bus command and rail 21 control centers; and 22 (g) The metropolitan transportation authority shall publish all police 23 incident and arrest data collected by the authority or any of its affil- 24 iates and subsidiaries as required by this section no later than January 25 first, two thousand twenty-six. Data regarding police incidents and 26 arrests shall include the operating agency, line, station, stop or other 27 location. 28 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.