Bill Text: NY A03181 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires accessible buses to be available within a service area measuring three miles from any bus line of the authority or its subsidiaries.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to transportation [A03181 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A03181-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3181

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 22, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. STECK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. HUNTER,
          SANTABARBARA, SIMON -- 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.
                                                                   LBD04284-01-1