NY State Senate Bill 2021-S5092

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jan 18, 2022	reported and committed to finance
Jan 05, 2022	referred to transportation
Feb 23, 2021	referred to transportation

Votes

- Jan 18, 2022 - Transportation Committee Vote
  S5092
  
  13
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Transportation Committee Vote: Jan 18, 2022
      
      aye (13)
      
      Cooney
      
      Gallivan
      
      Griffo
      
      Kaminsky
      
      Kaplan
      
      Kennedy
      
      Liu
      
      Mattera
      
      Persaud
      
      Ramos
      
      Reichlin-Melnick
      
      Serino
      
      Skoufis

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2021-S5092 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A3181
Current Committee:: Senate Finance
Law Section:: Transportation Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§15-b & 15-c, Transp L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2017-2018: S6027
2019-2020: S510, A8515
2023-2024: S4739, S9703, A4165

2021-S5092 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires accessible buses to be available within a service area measuring three miles from any bus line of the authority or its subsidiaries.

2021-S5092 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S5092

SPONSOR: KENNEDY
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the transportation law, in relation to the service area
for paratransit transportation

 
PURPOSE:

To provide people with disabilities the ability to be more integrated in
the communities in which they live and conduct their daily activities.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Subdivision 4 section 15-b and 15-c of the transportation law is amended
to make accessible buses available within a service area measuring three
miles from any bus line of the authority and its subsidiaries.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

"Though people with disabilities live in every community, our transpor-
tation policy has undermined the Americans with Disabilities Act's (ADA)
promise of equal opportunity in transportation for people with disabili-
ties, resulting in isolation from jobs, housing, health care, and educa-
tion. As political leaders we must take into consideration the needs of
people with disabilities. People with disabilities make up about 6
million (40 percent) of the almost 15 million people in this country who
have difficulties getting the transportation they need. Because many
people with disabilities do not have the option to drive cars, lack of
access to other modes of transportation disproportionately harms them.
About 560,000 people with disabilities never leave home because of
transportation difficulties."

http://www.civilrightsdocs.info/pdf/transportation/transportation-and
disabilities-v%205-2.pdf

The stated goal of the Supreme Court's decision in Olmstead v. L.C., 527
U.S. 581 (1999), is to integrate people with disabilities into the
community. More restrictive transportation policies and restrictions on
routes of serve for people with disabilities affects their ability to
become fully integrated in the community.

This bill is a significant step in complying with the provisions of
Olmstead and helping many people who are marginalized and restricted in
their ability to interact with services and members of the community.
This bill will help make a difference to increase health care access and
reduce isolation for adults and children in the broader community.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2018: S6027 Referred to Senate Transportation Committee

2019-20: S510

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have
become a law.

2021-S5092 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5092
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 23, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to the service  area
   for paratransit transportation
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 15-b of the transportation law, as
 amended by chapter 385 of the laws  of  1985,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   4. Accessible buses. The system shall include access by transportation
 disabled  persons,  including  persons  in wheelchairs, to not less than
 sixty-five percent of buses in  the  regularly  operated  fleet  of  the
 authority, which shall be properly operated and maintained to facilitate
 their  use  by  transportation disabled persons. To meet this sixty-five
 percent requirement, all buses purchased, leased, or  otherwise  brought
 newly  into  service  on  the bus lines of the authority and its subsid-
 iaries, except buses leased or otherwise put  into  service  to  relieve
 temporary,  unplanned shortages of buses in service, shall be accessible
 to transportation disabled persons until the sixty-five percent require-
 ment is met.  ACCESSIBLE BUSES SHALL BE AVAILABLE WITHIN A SERVICE  AREA
 MEASURING THREE MILES FROM ANY BUS LINE OF THE AUTHORITY AND ITS SUBSID-
 IARIES.
   § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 15-c of the transportation law, as added
 by chapter 61 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
   4. Required level of fixed-route accessibility. a. Each transportation
 provider  shall  provide access to one hundred percent of its regularly-
 operated buses that provide local,  fixed-route  service.  To  implement
 this  requirement  on  and after the effective date of this section, all
 buses purchased, leased or otherwise brought into  service  on  the  bus
 lines  of each transportation provider shall be lift-equipped except any
 bus which a provider has under contract of purchase on July first, nine-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD06946-02-1

 S. 5092                             2
 
 teen hundred ninety for delivery after  that  date.  Such  lift-equipped
 buses  shall be properly operated and maintained to facilitate their use
 by transit-disabled persons.
   b.  The  provisions of paragraph a of this subdivision shall not apply
 to buses that are purchased, leased or otherwise  brought  into  service
 that have a useful life of six years or less.
   C. ACCESSIBLE BUSES SHALL BE AVAILABLE WITHIN A SERVICE AREA MEASURING
 THREE MILES FROM ANY BUS LINE OF THE AUTHORITY AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES.
   §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.

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Senate Bill S5092

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance Committee

Jan 18, 2022 - Transportation Committee Vote

Transportation Committee Vote: Jan 18, 2022

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2021-S5092 (ACTIVE) - Details

2021-S5092 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2021-S5092 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S5092 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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2021-S5092 (ACTIVE) - Details

2021-S5092 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2021-S5092 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S5092 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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