STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4661

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        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:

     1    Section 1. Section 1266 of the public authorities law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 15-a to read as follows:
     3    15-a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, paratransit eligible
     4  individuals who are at least eighty years old, shall be required only to
     5  present  correspondence  from  a  licensed  physician,  dated within the
     6  preceding thirty days, indicating that the paratransit service is  still
     7  necessary  for the individual to make a single application for paratran-
     8  sit services. Once approved, such individuals shall be exempt  from  all
     9  recertification requirements.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05161-01-3