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Senate Bill S4739

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the service area for paratransit transportation

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2023-S4739 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4165
Law Section:
Transportation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§15-b & 15-c, Transp L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S6027
2019-2020: S510, A8515
2021-2022: S5092, A3181
2025-2026: S3144, A574

2023-S4739 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2023-S4739 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S4739 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4739
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 14, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  KENNEDY,  BORRELLO,  CLEARE, GALLIVAN, GOUNARDES,
   HOYLMAN-SIGAL, MANNION, MAY, MYRIE, ORTT --  read  twice  and  ordered
   printed,  and  when printed to be committed to the Committee on Trans-
   portation
 
 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 THREE MILES FROM ANY BUS LINE OF THE AUTHORITY AND ITS SUBSID-
 IARIES.
   § 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.
                                                            LBD05937-01-3

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