File #: Int 1121-2024    Version: Name: Providing contracted ferry service at reduced cost to middle school students.
Type: Introduction Status: Reported from Committee
Committee: Committee on Economic Development
On agenda: 11/21/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to providing contracted ferry service at reduced cost to middle school students
Sponsors: Amanda C. Farías, Alexa Avilés, Shahana K. Hanif, Justin L. Brannan, Crystal Hudson, Tiffany L. Cabán, Jennifer Gutiérrez
Council Member Sponsors: 7
Summary: This bill would expand the definition of "student" for the NYC Ferry fare discount program to include students enrolled in grades 6, 7, and 8, thereby making middle school students eligible for reduced-cost contracted ferry service.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1121-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1121, 3. Int. No. 1121, 4. November 21, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 11-21-24, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - November 21, 2024, 7. Committee Report 10/28/25, 8. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 9. Hearing Testimony 10/28/25, 10. Hearing Transcript 10/28/25, 11. Proposed Int. No. 1121-A - 12/15/25, 12. Int. No. 1121-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 13. Int. No. 1121-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 14. December 18, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/18/2025*Amanda C. Farías Committee on Economic Development Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/18/2025*Amanda C. Farías Committee on Economic Development Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/18/2025*Amanda C. Farías Committee on Economic Development Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/18/2025AAmanda C. Farías Committee on Economic Development Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
10/28/2025*Amanda C. Farías Committee on Economic Development Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/28/2025*Amanda C. Farías Committee on Economic Development Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/21/2024*Amanda C. Farías City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/21/2024*Amanda C. Farías City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Proposed Int. No. 1121-A

 

By Council Members Farías, Avilés, Hanif, Brannan, Hudson, Cabán and Gutiérrez

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to providing contracted ferry service at reduced cost to middle school students

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. The definition of “student” in subdivision a of section 19-308 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 47 for the year 2023, is amended to read as follows:

Student. The term “student” means any person who is enrolled in grade 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12, or is enrolled without an assigned grade, in a school of the city school district of the city of New York or a charter school that is located within the city of New York.

§ 2. This local law takes effect September 1, 2026.

 

Session 13

ARP

LS # 17877

12/5/25