Bill Text: NY S05622 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to special powers of the authority; allows 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; once approved, such individuals shall be exempt from all certification requirements.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S05622 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S05622-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5622 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 12, 2021 ___________ 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. LBD06473-01-1
