Bill Text: NY A06896 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends provisions of the economically sustainable transportation demonstration program to provide an on demand transit service for seniors using automobiles driven by volunteer and paid drivers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to aging [A06896 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A06896-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6896
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 25, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Aging
        AN ACT to amend the elder law, in relation to an economically  sustaina-
          ble transportation demonstration program
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 6 of section 223 of the  elder  law,  as
     2  added  by  section  3  of  part J of chapter 57 of the laws of 2006, are
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    2. The director shall establish the economically sustainable transpor-
     5  tation demonstration program for the  purpose  of  enabling  seniors  to
     6  remain  independent  and  mobile  in  their community. The program would
     7  provide an on demand transit service for seniors [that would use] estab-
     8  lishing, at a minimum, operational hours during  normal  business  hours
     9  using  automobiles  driven  by  volunteer  and paid drivers to transport
    10  seniors to where they need and want to  go.  [After  a  period  of  five
    11  years,  the  program  would  no longer be eligible for state funding and
    12  would be completely  self-sustaining,  relying  on  consumer  fares  and
    13  voluntary community support to remain operational.]
    14    6.  [Within  amounts appropriated, the] The director shall establish a
    15  pilot program within amounts appropriated therefor, in up to five  coun-
    16  ties,  each  with not more than three hundred thousand persons as of the
    17  two thousand ten United States census, or a collaborative project of two
    18  contiguous counties that each do not have more than three hundred  thou-
    19  sand persons as of the two thousand ten United States census. The direc-
    20  tor  shall  make  grants available to qualified economically sustainable
    21  transportation providers of no less than fifty-five thousand dollars per
    22  grantee [in the first year of the  operation  of  the  program].    Each
    23  provider shall be required to submit a report to the director within one
    24  year  of  the  implementation of such pilot program which shall include,
    25  but not be limited  to, documentation of participation rates, any imped-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  iments to implementation encountered, steps taken to ensure sustainabil-
     2  ity of the program and proposals for expansion to other  service  areas.
     3  Such  providers  shall be eligible to receive funding under this section
     4  annually  for  up to five years. After such time, providers must be able
     5  to provide  economically  sustainable  transportation  services  without
     6  receiving  further  public financial assistance for operating or capital
     7  expenses.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.