Bill Text: NY A01807 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to a state transportation plan; requires such plan include a minimum twenty-year forecast period at the time of adoption, assessing long-range needs spanning such period, including a forecast of highway pavement and bridge conditions.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 37-6)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-14 - referred to transportation [A01807 Detail]
Download: New_York-2025-A01807-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1807 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC, BARRETT, BRONSON, HUNTER, LUPARDO, MAGNAR- ELLI, OTIS, SANTABARBARA, SEAWRIGHT, SIMON, STECK, STIRPE, VANEL, PHEFFER AMATO, LAVINE, KIM, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, DAVILA, COLTON, ROSEN- THAL, WILLIAMS, R. CARROLL, EPSTEIN, DINOWITZ, PAULIN, JONES, WEPRIN, PEOPLES-STOKES, McMAHON, FRIEND, REYES, CRUZ, McDONOUGH, BRABENEC, PALMESANO, RA, WALSH, JACOBSON, SHIMSKY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, GLICK, HEVESI, HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to a state transpor- tation plan The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 15 of the transportation law, subdivision 2 as 2 amended by chapter 524 of the laws of 2005 and subdivision 3 as amended 3 by chapter 1064 of the laws of 1969, is amended to read as follows: 4 § 15. Comprehensive statewide master plan for transportation. 1. The 5 department shall formulate [and from time to time revise] a long-range 6 comprehensive statewide master plan for the balanced development and 7 coordination of adequate, safe and efficient commuter and general trans- 8 portation facilities and services in the state at reasonable cost to the 9 people, including, but not limited to, state highways[,] and bridges 10 under the jurisdiction of the commissioner; bicycle and pedestrian 11 facilities on such state highways and bridges; rapid transit, freight 12 and passenger railroad, omnibus, marine and other mass transportation 13 facilities and services[,] but excluding rapid transit, railroad, omni- 14 bus, marine and other mass transportation facilities and services under 15 the jurisdiction of the metropolitan transportation authority or its 16 subsidiaries or of a bi-state public benefit corporation; and public use 17 aviation and airport facilities and services[,] whether publicly or 18 privately owned, developed, operated or maintained, excluding airports 19 operated by a bi-state public benefit corporation. Such plan shall EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04889-01-5A. 1807 2 1 include a minimum twenty-year forecast period at the time of adoption, 2 assess long-range needs spanning such period, include a forecast of 3 pavement and bridge conditions of state highways and bridges under the 4 jurisdiction of the commissioner, and take into consideration: 5 a. the most recent twenty-year transportation plan adopted by each 6 metropolitan planning organization within the state pursuant to subpart 7 C of part 450 of title 23 of the code of federal regulations; and 8 b. the most recent long-range statewide transportation plan and state- 9 wide transportation improvement program developed by the state pursuant 10 to subpart B of part 450 of title 23 of the code of federal regulations. 11 2. The department shall submit such plan to the governor, the tempo- 12 rary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly and to the 13 department of state on or before September first, [nineteen hundred14sixty-eight, and thereafter shall submit appropriate revisions of such15plan] two thousand twenty-six. The department shall review and update 16 such plan at least every five years to extend the forecast period to at 17 least twenty years, provided that the department may revise such plan at 18 any other time without extending such forecast period. The department 19 shall submit all such revised and updated plans to the governor, the 20 temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly and to 21 the department of state [from time to] at the time [as] such revisions 22 are made. The department of state shall review such plan and such 23 revisions and shall submit a report thereon, together with such recom- 24 mendations as it may deem appropriate, to the governor, the temporary 25 president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly. Such plan and 26 such revisions shall become effective upon approval by the governor 27 [and], shall serve thereafter as a guide to the public and publicly 28 assisted development of transportation facilities and services in the 29 state, and the department shall maintain hard copies of the most recent 30 version of such plan and revisions thereto on file as a public document 31 in the office of the commissioner and at each regional office of the 32 department. 33 3. In formulating such plan and any such revisions, the department: 34 a. shall conduct [one or more] at least one public [hearings] hearing 35 in each department region; 36 b. may consult with and cooperate with (i) officials of departments 37 and agencies of the state having duties and responsibilities concerning 38 transportation; 39 (ii) officials and representatives of public corporations as defined 40 in [article one, section three of the general corporation] section 41 sixty-five of the general construction law; 42 (iii) officials and representatives of the federal government, of 43 neighboring states and of interstate agencies on problems affecting 44 transportation in this state; 45 (iv) officials and representatives of carriers and transportation 46 facilities and systems in the state; and 47 (v) persons, organizations and groups utilizing, served by, interested 48 in or concerned with transportation facilities and systems in the state; 49 c. may request and receive from any department, division, board, 50 bureau, commission or other agency of the state or any political subdi- 51 vision thereof or any public authority such assistance and data as may 52 be necessary to enable the department to carry out its responsibilities 53 under this section; and 54 d. may make use of and incorporate in the department's plan, any 55 recognized long-range regional plan for transportation, survey or report 56 developed by any public or private agency.A. 1807 3 1 4. The department shall maintain on its public website the proposed 2 and adopted long-range comprehensive statewide master plan and all 3 proposed and adopted revisions thereto, and shall provide a means on 4 such website for the public to submit comments thereon to the depart- 5 ment. 6 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
