New York S 3144: Relates to the service area for paratransit transportation

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S03144 Summary:

BILL NOS03144 

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SAME ASSAME AS A00574

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SPONSORCOONEY

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COSPNSRADDABBO, ASHBY, BASKIN, BORRELLO, BROUK, CLEARE, COMRIE, FAHY, FERNANDEZ, GALLIVAN, GONZALEZ,
 GOUNARDES, HINCHEY, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON, MARTINEZ, MATTERA, MAY, MYRIE, OBERACKER, ORTT,
 PALUMBO, ROLISON, RYAN C, SCARCELLA-SPANTON, WEBB, WEBER, WEIK

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§15-b & 15-c, Transp L

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

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BILL NOS03144 

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01/23/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

04/29/2025REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 3144

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 23, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. COONEY, ADDABBO, ASHBY, BORRELLO, BROUK, CLEARE,
 GALLIVAN, GOUNARDES, HINCHEY, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, MARTINEZ, MAY, MYRIE,
 ORTT, PALUMBO, ROLISON, WEBER, WEIK -- 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

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02142-01-5

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 1 lines of each transportation provider shall be lift-equipped except any
 2 bus which a provider has under contract of purchase on July first, nine-
 3 teen hundred ninety for delivery after that date. Such lift-equipped
 4 buses shall be properly operated and maintained to facilitate their use
 5 by transit-disabled persons.
 6 b. The provisions of paragraph a of this subdivision shall not apply
 7 to buses that are purchased, leased or otherwise brought into service
 8 that have a useful life of six years or less.
 9 c. Accessible buses shall be available within a service area measuring
 10 three miles from any bus line of the authority and its subsidiaries.
 11 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 12 have become a law.

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