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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8229
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 2, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. LUPARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee 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 provide an on demand transit service for seniors [that would use] estab-
8 lishing, at a minimum, operational hours during normal business hours
9 using automobiles driven by volunteer and paid drivers to transport
10 seniors to where they need and want to go. [After a period of five
11 years, the program would no longer be eligible for state funding and
12 would be completely self-sustaining, relying on consumer fares and
13 voluntary community support to remain operational.]
14 6. [Within amounts appropriated, the] The director shall establish a
15 pilot program within amounts appropriated therefor, in up to five coun-
16 ties, each with not more than three hundred thousand persons as of the
17 two thousand ten United States census, or a collaborative project of two
18 contiguous counties that each do not have more than three hundred thou-
19 sand persons as of the two thousand ten United States census. The direc-
20 tor shall make grants available to qualified economically sustainable
21 transportation providers of no less than fifty-five thousand dollars per
22 grantee [in the first year of the operation of the program]. Each
23 provider shall be required to submit a report to the director within one
24 year of the implementation of such pilot program which shall include,
25 but not be limited to, documentation of participation rates, any imped-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 iments to implementation encountered, steps taken to ensure sustainabil-
2 ity of the program and proposals for expansion to other service areas.
3 Such providers shall be eligible to receive funding under this section
4 annually for up to five years. After such time, providers must be able
5 to provide economically sustainable transportation services without
6 receiving further public financial assistance for operating or capital
7 expenses.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
