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Senate Bill S6938

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Exempts certain paratransit eligible individuals from recertification requirements

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2025-S6938 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6676
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1266, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S5556, A7522
2017-2018: S6304, A4690
2019-2020: S2641, A5726
2021-2022: S5622, A6924
2023-2024: S4661, A5183

2025-S6938 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows for paratransit eligible for paratransit eligible individuals who are at least eighty years old, to be required only to present correspondence from a licensed physician, dated within the preceding thirty days, indicating that the paratransit service is still necessary for the individual to make a single application for paratransit services; provides that once approved, such individuals shall be exempt from all certification requirements.

2025-S6938 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S6938 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6938
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 27, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the public  authorities  law,  in  relation  to  special
   powers of the metropolitan transportation authority
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 1266 of the public authorities law  is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision 15-a to read as follows:
   15-A. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, PARATRANSIT ELIGIBLE
 INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE AT LEAST EIGHTY YEARS OLD, SHALL BE REQUIRED ONLY TO
 PRESENT  CORRESPONDENCE  FROM  A  LICENSED  PHYSICIAN,  DATED WITHIN THE
 PRECEDING THIRTY DAYS, INDICATING THAT THE PARATRANSIT SERVICE IS  STILL
 NECESSARY  FOR THE INDIVIDUAL TO MAKE A SINGLE APPLICATION FOR PARATRAN-
 SIT SERVICES. ONCE APPROVED, SUCH INDIVIDUALS SHALL BE EXEMPT  FROM  ALL
 RECERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09706-01-5

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