Bill Text: NY A09780 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Extends and expands the scope of the on-demand E-hail paratransit pilot to include an additional 1,200 users.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-26 - reported referred to ways and means [A09780 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09780-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9780

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 11, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN  ACT  to amend the public authorities law and the transportation law,
          in relation to extending and expanding  the  scope  of  the  on-demand
          E-hail paratransit pilot

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 1205  of  the  public  authorities
     2  law,  as  added by chapter 717 of the laws of 1967, is amended and a new
     3  subdivision 9 is added to read as follows:
     4    3. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this  section,
     5  no  zonal  system  of  fares proposed to be instituted on or after March
     6  first, nineteen hundred sixty-eight for the use of the whole or any part
     7  of a rapid transit facility or of an omnibus line facility  or  a  para-
     8  transit service operated by the authority and no general revision of the
     9  system  of  transfers  applicable  to  the use of all such facilities in
    10  effect as of that date shall be established without the written approval
    11  of the mayor. For the purposes  of  this  subdivision  the  term  "zonal
    12  system  of fares" shall mean any system whereby the fare payable for the
    13  use of a rapid transit facility or an omnibus line facility or any para-
    14  transit service operated by the authority or of any part thereof  varies
    15  according  to distance traveled or to the location of the point of entry
    16  or departure by the user, but the creation or elimination of free trans-
    17  fer points shall not be regarded as the institution of such a system.
    18    9. a. For purposes of this subdivision,  the  term  "on-demand  E-hail
    19  paratransit  pilot"  shall  mean the service created by the metropolitan
    20  transportation authority in two thousand seventeen, through which  users
    21  of the authority's Access-A-Ride paratransit program can receive immedi-
    22  ate rides using a smartphone app or phone service.
    23    b.  The authority shall continue to operate the on-demand E-hail para-
    24  transit pilot through March thirty-first, two  thousand  twenty-two,  as
    25  provided  by  subdivision five-a of section fifteen-b of the transporta-
    26  tion law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15113-02-0

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     1    c. Fares for rides for the on-demand E-hail paratransit pilot shall be
     2  equal to the authority's base fare for bus and subway services. Hours of
     3  service for such pilot shall be the same as  the  authority's  hours  of
     4  service  for  bus,  subway,  and other paratransit services. The length,
     5  duration  and  number of on-demand E-hail paratransit pilot rides avail-
     6  able to each user enrolled in the  on-demand  E-hail  paratransit  pilot
     7  shall not be limited or restricted.
     8    § 2. Section 15-b of the transportation law is amended by adding a new
     9  subdivision 5-a to read as follows:
    10    5-a.  a.  For purposes of this subdivision, the term "on-demand E-hail
    11  paratransit pilot" shall mean the service created  by  the  metropolitan
    12  transportation  authority in two thousand seventeen, through which users
    13  of the authority's Access-A-Ride paratransit program can receive immedi-
    14  ate rides using a smartphone app or phone service.
    15    b. The metropolitan transportation authority shall continue to operate
    16  the on-demand E-hail paratransit pilot through March  thirty-first,  two
    17  thousand twenty-two.
    18    c. On or before March sixteenth, two thousand twenty, the metropolitan
    19  transportation  authority  shall expand the on-demand E-hail paratransit
    20  pilot to include an additional one thousand  two  hundred  Access-A-Ride
    21  users;  provided,  however,  the  authority  shall  not pay any costs or
    22  expenses related to such expansion above funding levels for  the  on-de-
    23  mand  E-hail  paratransit  pilot  for the two thousand nineteen calendar
    24  year, and may only implement such expansion with funds  appropriated  to
    25  it  by  the  state  of  New  York  or other governmental source for such
    26  purpose. In selecting new users for  the  on-demand  E-hail  paratransit
    27  pilot,  the  metropolitan  transportation  authority  shall  endeavor to
    28  select a representative sample of Access-A-Ride  users,  accounting  for
    29  age,  disability,  geographic distribution throughout New York city, and
    30  frequency of ridership of Access-A-Ride's other services.
    31    d. Fares for rides for the on-demand E-hail paratransit pilot shall be
    32  equal to the metropolitan transportation authority's base fare  for  bus
    33  and  subway  services. Hours of service for such pilot shall be the same
    34  as the metropolitan transportation authority's hours of service for bus,
    35  subway, and other paratransit services. The length, duration and  number
    36  of  on-demand  E-hail  paratransit  pilot  rides  available to each user
    37  enrolled in the on-demand E-hail paratransit pilot shall not be  limited
    38  or restricted.
    39    e. On or before April thirteenth, two thousand twenty-one, the author-
    40  ity shall issue a report to the governor, the temporary president of the
    41  senate,  the minority leader of the senate, the speaker of the assembly,
    42  the minority leader of the assembly, the mayor of the city of New  York,
    43  the  city council of the city of New York and the metropolitan transpor-
    44  tation authority. Such report shall detail  ridership,  usage  patterns,
    45  and costs of the on-demand E-hail paratransit pilot.
    46    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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