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1 HOUSE RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, Federal regulations require every
3 non-subscription user of the PACE paratransit service for
4 persons with disabilities to call in at 5:30 a.m. the day
5 before the transportation is needed, even though the person
6 has the same time and destination schedule every day; and
7 WHEREAS, It takes approximately 3 to 4 years to become a
8 subscription rider, based on the long waiting list for that
9 status; and
10 WHEREAS, Only 45% of the riders on any PACE route are
11 allowed to be subscription riders, allowing space for persons
12 requesting the service for a particular day; and
13 WHEREAS, Allowing persons who take the same route at the
14 same time every day to become subscription riders as soon as
15 they are accepted for PACE services would free PACE employees
16 from answering calls from the same persons every day and
17 would free persons with disabilities and the persons who
18 assist them from making those daily calls; and
19 WHEREAS, The PACE service is regulated by the Americans
20 with Disabilities Act; therefore be it
21 RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY-
22 FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we urge
23 the U.S. Congress to require the PACE service to alter its
24 current policy to better accommodate the needs of persons
25 with disabilities who have the same time and destination
26 schedules every day, by allowing those persons to become
27 subscription riders as soon as they have been accepted for
28 the service, and by increasing the percentage of subscription
29 riders allowed on each route; and be it further
30 RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be
31 delivered to the President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate,
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1 the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and each
2 member of the Illinois congressional delegation.