Bill Text: NY S07691 | 2015-2016 | 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 (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-14 - referred to aging [S07691 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07691-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7691
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 12, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  SERINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee 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  shall provide an on demand transit service for seniors [that would  use]
     8  using  automobiles  driven  by  volunteer  and paid drivers to transport
     9  seniors to where they need and want to  go.  [After  a  period  of  five
    10  years,  the  program  would  no longer be eligible for state funding and
    11  would be completely  self-sustaining,  relying  on  consumer  fares  and
    12  voluntary community support to remain operational.]
    13    6.  [Within  amounts appropriated, the] The director shall establish a
    14  pilot program within amounts appropriated therefor, in up to five  coun-
    15  ties,  each  with not more than three hundred thousand persons as of the
    16  two thousand ten United States census, or a collaborative project of two
    17  contiguous counties that each do not have more than three hundred  thou-
    18  sand persons as of the two thousand ten United States census. The direc-
    19  tor  shall  make  grants available to qualified economically sustainable
    20  transportation providers of no less than fifty-five thousand dollars per
    21  grantee [in the first year of the  operation  of  the  program].    Each
    22  provider  shall be required to submit a report to the director by Febru-
    23  ary first, two thousand seventeen,  which  shall  include,  but  not  be
    24  limited    to,  documentation of participation rates, any impediments to
    25  implementation encountered, steps taken to ensure sustainability of  the
    26  program and proposals for expansion to other service areas. Such provid-
    27  ers shall be eligible to receive funding under this section annually for
    28  up  to  five  years.  After such time, providers must be able to provide
    29  economically  sustainable  transportation  services  without   receiving
    30  further public financial assistance for operating or capital expenses.
    31    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14606-02-6