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Senate Bill S3144

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the service area for paratransit transportation

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2025-S3144 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A574
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
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
2023-2024: S4739, S9703, A4165

2025-S3144 (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.

2025-S3144 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S3144 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3144
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 23, 2025
                                ___________
 
 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:
 
   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.
                                                            LBD02142-01-5

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