STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6027 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 10, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- 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: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 15-b of the transportation law, as 2 amended by chapter 385 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 4. Accessible buses. The system shall include access by transportation 5 disabled persons, including persons in wheelchairs, to not less than 6 sixty-five percent of buses in the regularly operated fleet of the 7 authority, which shall be properly operated and maintained to facilitate 8 their use by transportation disabled persons. To meet this sixty-five 9 percent requirement, all buses purchased, leased, or otherwise brought 10 newly into service on the bus lines of the authority and its subsid- 11 iaries, except buses leased or otherwise put into service to relieve 12 temporary, unplanned shortages of buses in service, shall be accessible 13 to transportation disabled persons until the sixty-five percent require- 14 ment is met. Accessible buses shall be available within a service area 15 measuring one and a half miles from any bus line of the authority and 16 its subsidiaries. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 18 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11405-01-7