NY A00574

Requires accessible buses for transportation disabled persons, including wheelchair users, to be available within a service area measuring three miles from any bus line of the authority and its subsidiaries

Maintains existing requirement that at least 65% of buses in regularly operated fleets be accessible to transportation disabled persons

Requires 100% of regularly-operated buses providing local, fixed-route service to be accessible, with all newly purchased or leased buses to be lift-equipped

Takes effect 30 days after becoming law