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Assembly Bill A7555

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to eligibility for paratransit services

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2025-A7555 (ACTIVE) - Details

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

2025-A7555 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Opens eligibility of paratransit services to individuals with disabilities or health conditions who are able to utilize the public buses and railroad operated by the authority.

2025-A7555 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7555
 
                        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  eligibility
   for paratransit services
 
   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.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  PROVISIONS  OF  LAW,  OR  THE  TERMS  OF ANY
 CONTRACT, WHERE THE AUTHORITY  OFFERS  PARATRANSIT  SERVICE  TO  PROVIDE
 PUBLIC  TRANSPORTATION  FOR  ELIGIBLE  INDIVIDUALS  WITH DISABILITIES OR
 HEALTH CONDITIONS THAT PREVENT THEM FROM  USING  THE  PUBLIC  BUSES  AND
 RAILROAD  OPERATED BY THE AUTHORITY FOR SOME OR ALL OF THEIR TRIPS, SUCH
 PARATRANSIT SERVICE SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE AT THE SAME FARES FOR  INDI-
 VIDUALS  WITH  DISABILITIES OR HEALTH CONDITIONS WHO ARE ABLE TO UTILIZE
 THE PUBLIC BUSES AND RAILROAD OPERATED BY THE AUTHORITY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 

 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11345-01-5

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