Bill Text: NY A03181 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires accessible buses to be available within a service area measuring three miles from any bus line of the authority or its subsidiaries.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to transportation [A03181 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A03181-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3181--A 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 22, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. STECK, EPSTEIN, KELLES, STIRPE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. HUNTER, SANTABARBARA, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee 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: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 15-b of the transportation law, as 2 amended by chapter 385 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 4. Accessible buses. The system shall include access by transportation 5 disabled persons, including persons in wheelchairs, to not less than 6 sixty-five percent of buses in the regularly operated fleet of the 7 authority, which shall be properly operated and maintained to facilitate 8 their use by transportation disabled persons. To meet this sixty-five 9 percent requirement, all buses purchased, leased, or otherwise brought 10 newly into service on the bus lines of the authority and its subsid- 11 iaries, except buses leased or otherwise put into service to relieve 12 temporary, unplanned shortages of buses in service, shall be accessible 13 to transportation disabled persons until the sixty-five percent require- 14 ment is met. Accessible buses shall be available within a service area 15 measuring three miles from any bus line of the authority and its subsid- 16 iaries. 17 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 15-c of the transportation law, as added 18 by chapter 61 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows: 19 4. Required level of fixed-route accessibility. a. Each transportation 20 provider shall provide access to one hundred percent of its regularly- 21 operated buses that provide local, fixed-route service. To implement 22 this requirement on and after the effective date of this section, all EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04284-02-1A. 3181--A 2 1 buses purchased, leased or otherwise brought into service on the bus 2 lines of each transportation provider shall be lift-equipped except any 3 bus which a provider has under contract of purchase on July first, nine- 4 teen hundred ninety for delivery after that date. Such lift-equipped 5 buses shall be properly operated and maintained to facilitate their use 6 by transit-disabled persons. 7 b. The provisions of paragraph a of this subdivision shall not apply 8 to buses that are purchased, leased or otherwise brought into service 9 that have a useful life of six years or less. 10 c. Accessible buses shall be available within a service area measuring 11 three miles from any bus line of the authority and its subsidiaries. 12 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 13 have become a law.
