Bill Text: NY A00488 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the chairman of NYC transportation authority to promulgate rules and regulations providing for certain means of transportation to be utilized at the request of paratransit-eligible persons.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A00488 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A00488-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 488 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 9, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. M. G. MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions AN ACT in relation to requiring the chairman of the New York city trans- portation authority to promulgate rules and regulations providing for certain means of transportation to be utilized at the request of para- transit-eligible persons The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The chairman of the New York city transportation authority 2 shall promulgate rules and regulations providing for the use of specific 3 vehicles upon the request of a paratransit-eligible person utilizing 4 paratransit services of the authority, provided, however, such person 5 shall submit to the chairman, written medical proof provided by a physi- 6 cian licensed pursuant to article 131 of the education law, on a form 7 provided by the authority, that such vehicle is medically necessary to 8 transport such person. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 10 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02708-01-7