---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requires certain public transit authorities and their employees to submit all unresolvable contract negotiations to binding arbitration"
description: "Requires the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, the Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority, the Capital District Transportation Authority and the Central New York Regional Transportation Authority and their employees to submit all unresolvable contract negotiations to binding arbitration."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2021-2022"
identifier: "S 3537"
citation: "New York S 3537 (2021-2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["KENNEDY"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-01-30"
last_action: "2021-12-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c995a84-86c4-4b0c-b86d-cc07b87b0d10"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S3537"
source_hash: "72162c5557620a482edee5ce55580743a34f7087764acd622294d84a38a62617"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York S 3537 (2021-2022) — Requires certain public transit authorities and their employees to submit all unresolvable contract negotiations to binding arbitration

Requires the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, the Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority, the Capital District Transportation Authority and the Central New York Regional Transportation Authority and their employees to submit all unresolvable contract negotiations to binding arbitration.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S3537** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S3537&term=2021&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Floor Vote — **58–5** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **120–27** (pass) · lower
- Civil Service And Pensions Vote — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- KENNEDY — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-01-30** REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-08** 1ST REPORT CAL.509
- **2021-03-09** 2ND REPORT CAL.
- **2021-03-10** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
- **2021-03-16** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2021-03-16** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2021-03-16** REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-19** SUBSTITUTED FOR A4077
- **2021-05-19** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.358
- **2021-05-25** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2021-05-25** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2021-12-17** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2021-12-29** SIGNED CHAP.814 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4c995a84-86c4-4b0c-b86d-cc07b87b0d10`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).