State Trends in Coordination

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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

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National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)

• Non-profit, bi-partisan organization.
• Members are all 50 state legislatures, 7,400
  legislators 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

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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.

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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

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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

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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 lawsLegislative mandate for agencies to
  cooperate 10 states--AZ, CA, KS, ME, MS, MT,
  PA, SC, TN, TX

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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"

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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

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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
  Governors Development council every year that
  makes recommendations to improve practices

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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
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Contact Information

• Nick Farber - nicholas.farber_at_ncsl.org (303)
  856-1433
• www.ncsl.org

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