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State Trends in Coordination
Nicholas Farber
August 5, 2010 - APTA State Public Transportation
Partnerships Conference, Seattle WA
National Conference of State Legislatures
Denver, Colorado
National Conference of State Legislatures
(NCSL)
 Non-profit, bi-partisan organization.
 Members are all 50 state legislatures, 7,400 legislators
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and 30,000 legislative staff in 50 states, D.C. and U.S.
territories.
Offices in Denver and D.C.
Among our goals - To provide legislatures with
information and research about policy issues, both state
and federal.
NCSL tracks state policy developments in all public
policy areas.
Work closely w/ the states, federal agencies, sister
organizations, think tanks
NCSL Transportation Program
 Covers all topics of interest to state legislatures in transportation.
 Expert, experienced staff
 Instant Response Information Clearinghouse
 Technical Assistance: on-site testimony, arrange expert panels,
in-depth research
 Policy reports and briefs on numerous topics
 Data Bases: Issue-Specific State Transportation Legislation on
funding, coordination, traffic safety
 NCSL Transportation Committee made up of legislative
committee chairs and other transportation leaders from the 50
states.
NCSL Transportation Program
 Covers all topics of interest to legislatures in
transportation, including:
 Human Service Transportation Coordination
 Traffic Safety
 State Transportation Funding
 Hazmat Transportation
 Trucking Issues
 Aviation
 Passenger and Freight Rail
 Transit
 Intelligent Transportation Systems
Recent Trends in Coordination
 Created Comprehensive Statement of Legislative
Intent that Coordination is State Policy: 13 states-AR, FL, IA, IL, KY, MD, MN, MO, NC, NE, NH, VT, WA
 State Agency Coordinating Councils Established by
Legislation: 12 states--AR, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, KY, MN,
MO, NH, VT, and WA
 State Agency Coordinating Councils Established by
Executive Order: 14 states-- AK, CO, KS, MD, MA, NE,
NC, NJ, OK, OR, SC, SD, WV, WI
Recent Trends in Coordination
 Total Number of States with Coordinating Councils: 26
 Agency Cooperation, without specific mandate: 5 states-IA, MA, MI, NH, OH
 Recent Proposed Legislation for Coordination Councils in
AL, GA*
 Local coordination facilitated: CA, HI, NH, VA, WA
 Other laws—“Legislative mandate for agencies to
cooperate:” 10 states--AZ, CA, KS, ME, MS, MT, PA,
SC, TN, TX
Recent Coordination Enactments
 Alaska A.O. No. 243 (2008):
 Created the Governor's Coordinated Transportation Task
Force (CTTF)
 Purpose:
 To serve as the advisory committee to the governor
 To develop policy and procedural recommendations for the state's
various existing programs
 The CTTF presented its findings to the governor on Feb. 11.
 The report presents a process “to achieve a coordinated
human service public transportation culture as well as a
structure to sustain it"
Recent Coordination Enactments
 Florida HB 1175 (2008):
 Requires all human service agencies to identify dollars
spent on NEMT services to transportation disadvantaged
clients
 Requires all agencies to pay the transportation rates
approved by the Commission for the Transportation
Disadvantaged
 Amends provisions allowing for purchase of
transportation services outside the coordinated system
Recent Coordination Enactments
 Georgia HB 277 (2010):
 Creates the Georgia Coordinating Committee for Rural
and Human Services Transportation of the Governor's
Development Council
 The committee has to examine the manner in which
transportation services are provided by the participating
agencies represented on the committee
 Requires a report to be submitted to the Governor’s
Development council every year that makes
recommendations to improve practices
Recent Coordination Enactments
 Massachusetts HB 107 (2009):
 Created the Massachusetts Mobility Compact
 Goals are to:
 Increase mobility for people and goods in the state
 Promote administrative efficiency and program
improvement among transportation agencies
 Share best practice techniques
 Promote local economic growth for transportation facilities
in rural and less accessible areas of the state
Recent Coordination Enactments
 Minnesota SB 2540 (2010):
 Creates the Minnesota Council on Transportation Access
 The council was established to study, evaluate, oversee,
and make recommendations to improve the coordination,
availability, accessibility, efficiency, cost-effectiveness,
and safety of transportation services provided to the
transit public
 Expires June 30, 2014
Recent Coordination Enactments
 New Hampshire SB 321 (2010):
 Sets the term of 3 years for the coordination council members
 Broadens the purpose of the coordinating council from serving
“senior citizens and persons with disabilities to “the general
public, in particular citizens in need of access to essential
services and activities”
 Expands the purpose of the council so that it can approve the
formation of local coordinating councils
 Allows the council to issue grants “for the purpose of making
grants to improve community transportation”
Recent Coordination Enactments
 South Carolina HB 3279 (2008):
 Created the Committee to Study Mass Transit and
Human Services Transportation
 The committee has to study all mass transit systems and
human services transportation systems in South Carolina
and report on the status of these programs
 The final report was due on March 13, 2010
Recent Coordination Enactments
 South Carolina EO 2009-13:
 Establishes the South Carolina Interagency
Transportation Coordination Council, which promotes
interagency cooperation and statewide coordination to
cut costs and eliminate waste in current transportation
programs.
Recent Coordination Enactments
 Tennessee HB 2937 (2008):
 Requires the DOT to coordinate all financial resources that are
provided for transportation services in the state
 Requires those seeking funds from the DOT to file a report detailing
the amount needed and the purpose
 Tennessee SB 2835 (2008):
 Requires any state department making a grant for transportation
services and entities receiving funds for specialized services from
the state to coordinate those transportation services or specialized
transportation services with the department's multimodal
transportation resource division.
Recent Coordination Enactments
 Washington HB 2072 (2009):
 Created a work group, led by ACCT, to increase efficiencies in
NEMT
 Requires ACCT to collaborate and monitor local coordinating
coalitions toward the council's progress towards achieving its
goals, the progress of each region in advancing coordination
of and accessibility to special transportation services, and to
provide input to local and regional planning organizations for
advancing special needs transportation
 Creates a local coordinating coalition in each nonemergency
medical transportation brokerage region.
NCSL Caltrans MAP Project
 MAP's Goals:
 Improve the effectiveness of coordination and
partnerships
 Coordination will assist by opening lines of
communication to:
 Promote human services transportation
coordination
 Improve mobility choices for targeted consumers
 Implement the Mobility Management Plan
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NCSL Caltrans MAP Project
 In conjunction with JNTC, NCSL:
 Performed legislative research on relevant California and
federal statutes
 Conducted presentations, discussions and interviews with
Caltrans, the MAP PAC and other study stakeholders
 Analyzed key regulatory and policy-related issues which
surfaced during the study that were obstacles to the
improvement of state coordination efforts
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NCSL Caltrans MAP Project
 NCSL Recommendations:
 Improve the Unmet Needs Process
 Amend NEMT Medi-Cal regulations
 Strengthen CTSAs
 Improve insurance and volunteer driver laws
 Establish a formalized structure to promote
coordination
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NCSL Transportation Program: Transit and Human
Service Transportation Coordination
 Extensive 2005 baseline study of state coordination
efforts
 Multi-year effort in conjunction with Federal Transit
Administration (FTA), Community Transportation
Association of America (CTAA) to create awareness
about coordination policy options in state legislatures.
 Recent reports on paratransit insurance, school bus
use, mobility management, state coordinating
councils
 Available upon request
NCSL Transportation Program: Transit and Human
Service Transportation Coordination
 50-State Transportation Coordination
Legislation On-line Data Base
 Technical Assistance to states on request
 Presentations at conferences such as the CTAA
Coordination Institute.
 Educational sessions for NCSL Transportation
Committee about specific state efforts
 Session on coordination in Louisville, KY on July 26
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Contact Information
o Nick Farber - [email protected] (303) 856-1433
o www.ncsl.org
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