Assembly Bill A7554

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to recertification for paratransit

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A7554 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1299-f, Pub Auth L

2025-A7554 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows individuals to use correspondence from a licensed physician, dated within the preceding thirty days, indicating that paratransit service is necessary for such individual, in place of in-person recertification.

2025-A7554 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7554
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 1, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law,  in  relation  to  recertif-
   ication for paratransit service
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 1299-f of the public authorities law is amended  by
 adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
   8.  (A)  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  OTHER  PROVISION  OF LAW, AN INDIVIDUAL
 RECERTIFYING FOR PARATRANSIT SERVICE, SHALL, IN  LIEU  OF  AN  IN-PERSON
 ASSESSMENT, SUBMIT CORRESPONDENCE FROM A LICENSED PHYSICIAN, DATED WITH-
 IN  THE  PRECEDING  THIRTY  DAYS, INDICATING THAT PARATRANSIT SERVICE IS
 NECESSARY FOR SUCH INDIVIDUAL.
   (B) THE AUTHORITY SHALL PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS REGARDING THE
 FORM AND CONTENT OF THE LICENSED PHYSICIAN'S CORRESPONDENCE PURSUANT  TO
 PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11344-01-5

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