Requires fares for paratransit services providing public transportation for eligible individuals with disabilities or health conditions that prevent them from using public buses and subways for some or all of their trips, to be made available at the same fares for individuals with disabilities or health conditions who are able to utilize public buses and subways.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6497
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 14, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- 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 requiring
fare parity for paratransit services operated by certain authorities
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 20 to read as follows:
3 20. Notwithstanding any provisions of law, or the terms of any
4 contract, where the authority offers paratransit service to provide
5 public transportation for eligible individuals with disabilities or
6 health conditions that prevent them from using the public buses and
7 subways operated by the authority for some or all of their trips, such
8 paratransit service shall be made available at the same fares for indi-
9 viduals with disabilities or health conditions who are able to utilize
10 the public buses and subways operated by the authority.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
12 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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