Bill Text: NY S02155 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Amends provisions of the economically sustainable transportation demonstration program to provide an on demand transit service for seniors using automobiles driven by volunteer and paid drivers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-12 - referred to aging [S02155 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S02155-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Amends provisions of the economically sustainable transportation demonstration program to provide an on demand transit service for seniors using automobiles driven by volunteer and paid drivers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-12 - referred to aging [S02155 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S02155-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2155 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 12, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SERINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Aging AN ACT to amend the elder law, in relation to an economically sustaina- ble transportation demonstration program The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 6 of section 223 of the elder law, as 2 added by section 3 of part J of chapter 57 of the laws of 2006, are 3 amended to read as follows: 4 2. The director shall establish the economically sustainable transpor- 5 tation demonstration program for the purpose of enabling seniors to 6 remain independent and mobile in their community. The program [would] 7 shall provide an on demand transit service for seniors [that would use] 8 using automobiles driven by volunteer and paid drivers to transport 9 seniors to where they need and want to go. [After a period of five10years, the program would no longer be eligible for state funding and11would be completely self-sustaining, relying on consumer fares and12voluntary community support to remain operational.] 13 6. [Within amounts appropriated, the] The director shall establish a 14 pilot program within amounts appropriated therefor, in up to five coun- 15 ties, each with not more than three hundred thousand persons as of the 16 two thousand ten United States census, or a collaborative project of two 17 contiguous counties that each do not have more than three hundred thou- 18 sand persons as of the two thousand ten United States census. The direc- 19 tor shall make grants available to qualified economically sustainable 20 transportation providers of no less than fifty-five thousand dollars per 21 grantee [in the first year of the operation of the program]. Each 22 provider shall be required to submit a report to the director by Febru- 23 ary first, two thousand eighteen, which shall include, but not be limit- 24 ed to, documentation of participation rates, any impediments to imple- 25 mentation encountered, steps taken to ensure sustainability of the EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04890-01-7S. 2155 2 1 program and proposals for expansion to other service areas. Such provid- 2 ers shall be eligible to receive funding under this section annually for 3 up to five years. After such time, providers must be able to provide 4 economically sustainable transportation services without receiving 5 further public financial assistance for operating or capital expenses. 6 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.