Bill Text: NY S05092 | 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: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-18 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S05092 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S05092-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5092

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 23, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed 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 three 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, as added
    18  by chapter 61 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
    19    4. Required level of fixed-route accessibility. a. Each transportation
    20  provider  shall  provide access to one hundred percent of its regularly-
    21  operated buses that provide local,  fixed-route  service.  To  implement
    22  this  requirement  on  and after the effective date of this section, all
    23  buses purchased, leased or otherwise brought into  service  on  the  bus
    24  lines  of each transportation provider shall be lift-equipped except any
    25  bus which a provider has under contract of purchase on July first, nine-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  teen hundred ninety for delivery after  that  date.  Such  lift-equipped
     2  buses  shall be properly operated and maintained to facilitate their use
     3  by transit-disabled persons.
     4    b.  The  provisions of paragraph a of this subdivision shall not apply
     5  to buses that are purchased, leased or otherwise  brought  into  service
     6  that have a useful life of six years or less.
     7    c. Accessible buses shall be available within a service area measuring
     8  three miles from any bus line of the authority and its subsidiaries.
     9    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    10  have become a law.