Bill Text: NY A08515 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to service areas for paratransit transportation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to transportation [A08515 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08515-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8515

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     August 7, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. STECK, SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to the service  area
          for paratransit transportation

          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 15-b of the transportation law, as
     2  amended by chapter 385 of the laws  of  1985,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    4. Accessible buses. The system shall include access by transportation
     5  disabled  persons,  including  persons  in wheelchairs, to not less than
     6  sixty-five percent of buses in  the  regularly  operated  fleet  of  the
     7  authority, which shall be properly operated and maintained to facilitate
     8  their  use  by  transportation disabled persons. To meet this sixty-five
     9  percent requirement, all buses purchased, leased, or  otherwise  brought
    10  newly  into  service  on  the bus lines of the authority and its subsid-
    11  iaries, except buses leased or otherwise put  into  service  to  relieve
    12  temporary,  unplanned shortages of buses in service, shall be accessible
    13  to transportation disabled persons until the sixty-five percent require-
    14  ment is met.  Accessible buses shall be available within a service  area
    15  measuring  five miles from any bus line of the authority and its subsid-
    16  iaries.
    17    § 2. Subdivision 4 of  section  15-c  of  the  transportation  law  is
    18  amended by adding a new paragraph c to read as follows:
    19    c. Accessible buses shall be available within a service area measuring
    20  five miles from any bus line of the authority and its subsidiaries.
    21    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    22  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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