NY State Senate Bill 2017-S6027A

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jan 03, 2018	referred to transportation
May 24, 2017	print number 6027a
May 24, 2017	amend and recommit to transportation
May 10, 2017	referred to transportation

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2017-S6027 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A9611
Current Committee:: Senate Transportation
Law Section:: Transportation Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§15-b & 15-c, Transp L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2019-2020: S510
2021-2022: S5092
2023-2024: S4739

2017-S6027 - Summary

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

2017-S6027 - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S6027

 TITLE OF BILL :  An act to amend the transportation law, in relation
to the service area for paratransit transportation

 PURPOSE :

To provide people with disabilities the ability to be more integrated
in the communities in which they live and conduct their daily
activities.

 SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS :

Subdivision 4 section 15-b of the transportation law is amended to
make accessible buses available within a service area measuring one
and a half miles from any bus line of the authority and its
subsidiaries.

 JUSTIFICATION :

"Though people with disabilities live in every community, our
transportation policy has undermined the Americans with Disabilities
Act's (ADA) promise of equal opportunity in transportation for people
with disabilities, resulting in isolation from jobs, housing, health
care, and education. As political leaders we must take into
consideration the needs of people with disabilities. People with

disabilities make up about 6 million (40 percent) of the almost 15
million people in this country who have difficulties getting the
transportation they need. Because many people with disabilities do not
have the option to drive cars, lack of access to other modes of
transportation disproportionately harms them. About 560,000 people
with disabilities never leave home because of transportation
difficulties."
http://www.civilrightsdocs.info/pdf/transportation/transportation-and
disabilities-v%205-2.pdf

The stated goal of the Supreme Court's decision in Olmstead v. L.C.,
527 U.S. 581 (1999), is to integrate people with disabilities into the
community. More restrictive transportation policies and restrictions
on routes of serve for people with disabilities affects their ability
to become fully integrated in the community.

This bill is a significant step in complying with the provisions of
Olmstead and helping many people who are marginalized and restricted
in their ability to interact with services and members of the
community. This bill will help make a difference to increase health
care access and reduce isolation for adults and children in the
broader community.

 LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

New Bill

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

None

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
Immediately after the bill has become law.

2017-S6027 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6027
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 10, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  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:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 15-b of the transportation law, as
 amended by chapter 385 of the laws  of  1985,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   4. Accessible buses. The system shall include access by transportation
 disabled  persons,  including  persons  in wheelchairs, to not less than
 sixty-five percent of buses in  the  regularly  operated  fleet  of  the
 authority, which shall be properly operated and maintained to facilitate
 their  use  by  transportation disabled persons. To meet this sixty-five
 percent requirement, all buses purchased, leased, or  otherwise  brought
 newly  into  service  on  the bus lines of the authority and its subsid-
 iaries, except buses leased or otherwise put  into  service  to  relieve
 temporary,  unplanned shortages of buses in service, shall be accessible
 to transportation disabled persons until the sixty-five percent require-
 ment is met.  ACCESSIBLE BUSES SHALL BE AVAILABLE WITHIN A SERVICE  AREA
 MEASURING  ONE  AND  A HALF MILES FROM ANY BUS LINE OF THE AUTHORITY AND
 ITS SUBSIDIARIES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11405-01-7

co-Sponsors

2017-S6027A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A9611
Current Committee:: Senate Transportation
Law Section:: Transportation Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§15-b & 15-c, Transp L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2019-2020: S510
2021-2022: S5092
2023-2024: S4739

2017-S6027A (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2017-S6027A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S6027A

 TITLE OF BILL :  An act to amend the transportation law, in relation
to the service area for paratransit transportation

 PURPOSE :

To provide people with disabilities the ability to be more integrated
in the communities in which they live and conduct their daily
activities.

Subdivision 4 section 15-b and 15-c of the transportation law is
amended to make accessible buses available within a service area
measuring one and a half miles from any bus line of the authority and
its subsidiaries.

 JUSTIFICATION :

"Though people with disabilities live in every community, our
transportation policy has undermined the Americans with Disabilities
Act's (ADA) promise of equal opportunity in transportation for people
with disabilities, resulting in isolation from jobs, housing, health
care, and education. As political leaders we must take into
consideration the needs of people with disabilities. People with
disabilities make up about 6 million (40 percent) of the almost 15
million people in this country who have difficulties getting the

transportation they need. Because many people with disabilities do not
have the option to drive cars, lack of access to other modes of
transportation disproportionately harms them. About 560,000 people
with disabilities never leave home because of transportation
difficulties."

http://www.civilrightsdocs.info/pdf/transportation/transportation-and
disabilities-v%205-2.pdf

The stated goal of the Supreme Court's decision in Olmstead v. L.C.,
527 U.S. 581 (1999), is to integrate people with disabilities into the
community. More restrictive transportation policies and restrictions
on routes of serve for people with disabilities affects their ability
to become fully integrated in the community.

This bill is a significant step in complying with the provisions of
Olmstead and helping many people who are marginalized and restricted
in their ability to interact with services and members of the
community. This bill will help make a difference to increase health
care access and reduce isolation for adults and children in the
broader community.

 LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

New Bill

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

None

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
Immediately after the bill has become law.

2017-S6027A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  6027--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 10, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  ORTT, GALLIVAN, KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Trans-
   portation  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
   amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 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:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 15-b of the transportation law, as
 amended by chapter 385 of the laws  of  1985,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   4. Accessible buses. The system shall include access by transportation
 disabled  persons,  including  persons  in wheelchairs, to not less than
 sixty-five percent of buses in  the  regularly  operated  fleet  of  the
 authority, which shall be properly operated and maintained to facilitate
 their  use  by  transportation disabled persons. To meet this sixty-five
 percent requirement, all buses purchased, leased, or  otherwise  brought
 newly  into  service  on  the bus lines of the authority and its subsid-
 iaries, except buses leased or otherwise put  into  service  to  relieve
 temporary,  unplanned shortages of buses in service, shall be accessible
 to transportation disabled persons until the sixty-five percent require-
 ment is met.  ACCESSIBLE BUSES SHALL BE AVAILABLE WITHIN A SERVICE  AREA
 MEASURING  ONE  A  HALF MILES FROM ANY BUS LINE OF THE AUTHORITY AND ITS
 SUBSIDIARIES.
   § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 15-c of the transportation law, as added
 by chapter 61 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
   4. Required level of fixed-route accessibility. a. Each transportation
 provider shall provide access to one hundred percent of  its  regularly-
 operated  buses  that  provide  local, fixed-route service. To implement
 this requirement on and after the effective date of  this  section,  all
 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.

                                                            LBD11405-03-7

 S. 6027--A                          2
 
 lines of each transportation provider shall be lift-equipped except  any
 bus which a provider has under contract of purchase on July first, nine-
 teen  hundred  ninety  for  delivery after that date. Such lift-equipped
 buses  shall be properly operated and maintained to facilitate their use
 by transit-disabled persons.
   b. The provisions of paragraph a of this subdivision shall  not  apply
 to  buses  that  are purchased, leased or otherwise brought into service
 that have a useful life of six years or less.
   C. ACCESSIBLE BUSES SHALL BE AVAILABLE WITHIN A SERVICE AREA MEASURING
 ONE AND A HALF MILES FROM ANY BUS LINE OF THE AUTHORITY AND ITS  SUBSID-
 IARIES.
   §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.

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Senate Bill S6027A

Sponsored By

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee

Bill Amendments

co-Sponsors

2017-S6027 - Details

2017-S6027 - Summary

2017-S6027 - Sponsor Memo

2017-S6027 - Bill Text download pdf

co-Sponsors

2017-S6027A (ACTIVE) - Details

2017-S6027A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2017-S6027A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S6027A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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Sponsored By

Robert G. Ortt

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee

Bill Amendments

co-Sponsors

Patrick M. Gallivan

Timothy M. Kennedy

2017-S6027 - Details

2017-S6027 - Summary

2017-S6027 - Sponsor Memo

2017-S6027 - Bill Text download pdf

co-Sponsors

Patrick M. Gallivan

Chris Jacobs

Timothy M. Kennedy

2017-S6027A (ACTIVE) - Details

2017-S6027A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2017-S6027A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S6027A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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