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1 1 Section 1. Section 324A.2, Code 1997, is amended by adding
1 2 the following new unnumbered paragraph after unnumbered
1 3 paragraph 2:
1 4 NEW UNNUMBERED PARAGRAPH. The department shall establish a
1 5 one-year demonstration project, beginning July 1, 1997, to
1 6 provide a transportation service that gives special ridership
1 7 priority to meet critical services needs of persons sixty
1 8 years of age and older through cooperative agreements with
1 9 each of the area agencies on aging and the regional transit
1 10 system authorities located in the areas. Each area agency on
1 11 aging and the regional transit system authority in the area
1 12 shall report to the department on a quarterly basis the number
1 13 of persons sixty years of age and older who utilized the
1 14 service during the quarter, the number of one-way rides
1 15 provided, the destination of each trip, the mode of
1 16 transportation utilized, donations received for the service,
1 17 and the costs associated with providing the service. The
1 18 department shall assist each area agency on aging to seek
1 19 waivers of federal requirements which would hinder the
1 20 operation of the demonstration project.
1 21 Sec. 2. Section 324A.4, subsection 1, Code 1997, is
1 22 amended to read as follows:
1 23 1. The department shall compile and maintain current
1 24 information on available and pending federal, state, local,
1 25 and private aid affecting urban and rural public transit
1 26 programs. Public, private, and private nonprofit
1 27 organizations applying for or receiving federal, state or
1 28 local aid for providing transit services shall provide a copy
1 29 of their fiscal year operating budget annually prior to June 1
1 30 depicting funds used for public transit programs and such
1 31 other information as the department may require prior to
1 32 receiving any federal or state funds or any aid from a
1 33 political subdivision of the state. The operating budget
1 34 shall list all of the funding sources of the organization
1 35 along with the listing of funds expended by that organization
2 1 during the preceding fiscal year. The department, in co-
2 2 operation with the regional planning agencies as the
2 3 responsible agency for annual updating the regional transit
2 4 development programs, shall compile this information annually.
2 5 Any state agency or organization administering funds for
2 6 transit services is required to submit all funding requests
2 7 through the regional and state clearinghouse and the state
2 8 department of transportation. Any organization, state agency,
2 9 political subdivision, and public transit system, except
2 10 public school transportation and transportation provided by an
2 11 area agency on aging exclusively for the benefit of persons
2 12 sixty years of age and older, either directly or indirectly,
2 13 through service contracts to other private or nonprofit
2 14 agencies, receiving federal, state or local aid to provide or
2 15 contract for public transit services or transportation to the
2 16 general public and specific client groups, must coordinate and
2 17 consolidate funding and resulting service, to the maximum
2 18 extent possible, with the urban or regional transit system.
2 19 EXPLANATION
2 20 This bill directs the Iowa department of transportation to
2 21 establish a one-year demonstration project, beginning on July
2 22 1, 1997, to provide transportation services for persons 60
2 23 years of age and older through a coordinated effort between
2 24 area agencies on aging and regional transit system
2 25 authorities. The bill also exempts transportation services
2 26 provided by area agencies on aging exclusively to persons 60
2 27 years of age and older from the requirements that the funding
2 28 for the service and the provision of the service be
2 29 coordinated and consolidated with the local urban or regional
2 30 transit system.
2 31 LSB 1098SS 77
2 32 mk/sc/14
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