Bill Text: NY A10094 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the department of transportation to develop an updated New York state bicycle and pedestrian plan adapted from the department's nineteen hundred ninety-seven New York state bicycle and pedestrian plan, to be re-evaluated and updated every five years.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-03 - referred to transportation [A10094 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10094-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10094

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 3, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. KELLES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the transportation law, in relation to requiring the
          department of transportation to develop  an  updated  New  York  state
          bicycle and pedestrian plan

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 14 of the transportation law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 37 to read as follows:
     3    37. (a) To develop an updated New York state  bicycle  and  pedestrian
     4  plan,  adapted  from  the department's nineteen hundred ninety-seven New
     5  York state bicycle and pedestrian plan for action on infrastructure  and
     6  programming, and identify steps for the implementation, integration, and
     7  evaluation of such plan.
     8    (b)  Such updated plan shall address changing circumstances in bicycle
     9  and pedestrian policy, including but  not  limited  to  bicycle  sharing
    10  programs,  the  state's  complete  streets  programs pursuant to section
    11  three hundred thirty-one of the highway law, the expansion  of  electric
    12  scooters  and  bicycles  with electric assist as defined by sections one
    13  hundred fourteen-e and one hundred two-c of the vehicle and traffic law,
    14  and recommendations for updates to state laws and policies to  encourage
    15  bicycle and pedestrian safety.
    16    (c)  Such updated plan shall be developed no later than December thir-
    17  ty-first, two thousand twenty-five and shall be re-evaluated and updated
    18  pursuant to the requirements of this subdivision every five years there-
    19  after. Such plan shall be made publicly available upon its development.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11786-01-3