This bill prohibits natural gas drilling operations using high-volume hydraulic fracturing (HVHF) from using their wastewater for road dust control, de-icing, or land spreading. It directly affects oil and gas companies conducting HVHF, defined as operations using over 300,000 gallons of water per well. The key provision explicitly bans wastewater - including flowback fluid and production brine - from these specific uses under environmental law. The law takes effect immediately upon enactment.
This bill exempts most local governments (counties, towns, cities, villages) from paying the metropolitan commuter transportation mobility tax, with one exception: cities with over 1 million residents (like New York City) remain subject to the tax. It directly affects local political subdivisions by removing this specific tax obligation. The key mechanism is amending tax law to add a new exemption category (paragraph 5) for these entities. This change takes effect immediately upon enactment.
Provides that the port authority shall prohibit nonstop flights to or from points beyond one thousand five hundred miles, except on Saturdays and flights to Denver, Colorado, from flying to or from LaGuardia airport, an air terminal of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
S 2621 limits the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority by prohibiting it from charging trucks more than one toll per day when entering Manhattan's central business district. This bill directly affects commercial truck drivers and the authority's tolling operations. The key provision establishes a daily toll cap for trucks, ensuring they pay only once regardless of how many times they enter the district in a single day. The legislation does not change toll amounts or funding mechanisms, focusing solely on the frequency of truck toll charges.
This bill repeals New York State's Article 17-C, which established supplemental vehicle registration fees for New York City residents. It directly affects NYC vehicle owners who paid a $25 annual supplemental fee and those paying $1 every six months for learner permits or license renewals. The repeal removes these specific fees, ending their collection and redirecting related funds (previously deposited into MTA trust accounts) from the vehicle and traffic law. The change takes effect upon enactment, eliminating these targeted revenue streams for NYC registrants.
Authorizes school districts to submit an opt-out waiver to the commissioner of education authorizing such districts to opt-out of certain zero-emission school bus requirements.
This bill increases the minimum insurance requirement for specific transportation services. It reduces the required coverage from $1.5 million to $500,000 for common carrier ambulettes, paratransit vehicles, and commuter vans (with seating capacity of eight or more passengers) used to transport passengers for hire. The key change sets a new combined single limit of $500,000 for bodily injury, death, or property damage in a single accident for these vehicles. This directly affects operators of these specialized passenger transport services in New York.
Bans open pickup trucks on the historic ten and one-half mile section of the Bronx River Parkway, beginning in the city of Yonkers and the village of Bronxville where such Parkway diverges from the Sprain Brook Parkway and extends north along the Bronx River Parkway Reservation to the Kenisco Dam Plaza in the hamlet of Valhalla, town of Mt. Pleasant.
Repeals congestion pricing (Part A); increases the membership of the metropolitan transportation authority from sixteen to seventeen members; provides for the appointment for one member from each of New York City's boroughs on the written recommendation of the mayor of New York City (Part B); directs the metropolitan transportation authority to contract with a certified public accounting firm for the provision of an independent, comprehensive, forensic audit of the authority (Part C).
Repeals the metropolitan commuter transportation mobility tax; requires the commissioner of taxation and finance to review and recommend to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, and the speaker of the assembly any other provisions of law which require amendments or repeal thereof.
