Bill Text: NY S02155 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
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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-Amended.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-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2155--A 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 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee 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 provide an on demand transit service for seniors [that would use] estab- 8 lishing, at a minimum, operational hours during normal business hours 9 using automobiles driven by volunteer and paid drivers to transport 10 seniors to where they need and want to go. [After a period of five11years, the program would no longer be eligible for state funding and12would be completely self-sustaining, relying on consumer fares and13voluntary community support to remain operational.] 14 6. [Within amounts appropriated, the] The director shall establish a 15 pilot program within amounts appropriated therefor, in up to five coun- 16 ties, each with not more than three hundred thousand persons as of the 17 two thousand ten United States census, or a collaborative project of two 18 contiguous counties that each do not have more than three hundred thou- 19 sand persons as of the two thousand ten United States census. The direc- 20 tor shall make grants available to qualified economically sustainable 21 transportation providers of no less than fifty-five thousand dollars per 22 grantee [in the first year of the operation of the program]. Each 23 provider shall be required to submit a report to the director within one EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04890-03-7S. 2155--A 2 1 year of the implementation of such pilot program which shall include, 2 but not be limited to, documentation of participation rates, any imped- 3 iments to implementation encountered, steps taken to ensure sustainabil- 4 ity of the program and proposals for expansion to other service areas. 5 Such providers shall be eligible to receive funding under this section 6 annually for up to five years. After such time, providers must be able 7 to provide economically sustainable transportation services without 8 receiving further public financial assistance for operating or capital 9 expenses. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
