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S04661 Summary:

BILL NOS04661
 
SAME ASSAME AS A05183
 
SPONSORLANZA
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §1266, Pub Auth L
 
Allows for paratransit eligible for paratransit eligible individuals who are at least eighty years old, to be required only to present correspondence from a licensed physician, dated within the preceding thirty days, indicating that the paratransit service is still necessary for the individual to make a single application for paratransit services; provides that once approved, such individuals shall be exempt from all certification requirements.
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S04661 Actions:

BILL NOS04661
 
02/13/2023REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
01/03/2024REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
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S04661 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          4661
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    February 13, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- 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  special
          powers of the metropolitan transportation authority
 
          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 15-a to read as follows:
     3    15-a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, paratransit eligible
     4  individuals who are at least eighty years old, shall be required only to
     5  present  correspondence  from  a  licensed  physician,  dated within the
     6  preceding thirty days, indicating that the paratransit service is  still
     7  necessary  for the individual to make a single application for paratran-
     8  sit services. Once approved, such individuals shall be exempt  from  all
     9  recertification requirements.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05161-01-3
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