Bill Text: NY S03178 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires fares for paratransit services providing public transportation for eligible individuals with disabilities or health conditions that prevent them from using public buses and subways for some or all of their trips, to be made available at the same fares for individuals with disabilities or health conditions who are able to utilize public buses and subways.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S03178 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S03178-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3178 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 30, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- 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 requiring fare parity for paratransit services operated by certain authorities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 1266 of the public authorities law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 20 to read as follows: 3 20. Notwithstanding any provisions of law, or the terms of any 4 contract, where the authority offers paratransit service to provide 5 public transportation for eligible individuals with disabilities or 6 health conditions that prevent them from using the public buses and 7 subways operated by the authority for some or all of their trips, such 8 paratransit service shall be made available at the same fares for indi- 9 viduals with disabilities or health conditions who are able to utilize 10 the public buses and subways operated by the authority. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 12 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08141-01-3
