Bill Text: NY A02546 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 2546

Introduced

Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of transportation to conduct a study on the implementation of traffic control devices at intersections with a high volume of visual and hearing impaired pedestrians.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-17 - referred to transportation [A02546 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A02546-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2546

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SAYEGH, ROSENTHAL, CRUZ, DeSTEFANO, SHIMSKY,
          GRAY, BURDICK, WILLIAMS -- read once and referred to the Committee  on
          Transportation

        AN  ACT  directing the commissioner of transportation to conduct a study
          on the implementation of traffic control devices at intersections with
          a high volume of visual and hearing impaired pedestrians

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

     1    Section 1. The commissioner of transportation shall conduct a study on
     2  the feasibility and process for installing pedestrian control devices at
     3  traffic  intersections  involving  a state-owned public road where there
     4  may be a high volume of pedestrians with visual and hearing impairments.
     5  Such study shall include an  estimate  of  how  many  intersections  may
     6  require  such  devices, the method used for determining such estimate, a
     7  process for  implementation,  and  the  estimated  costs  involved.  For
     8  purposes  of  this  act, "pedestrian control device" shall mean an elec-
     9  tronically operated traffic control device composed of one or more indi-
    10  cations which directs pedestrian traffic  at  signalized  locations  and
    11  assists  the  visual  and  hearing impaired in safely crossing a traffic
    12  intersection.
    13    § 2. Upon completion of the study but no later than  the  thirty-first
    14  of December next succeeding the date on which this act shall have become
    15  a law, the commissioner of transportation shall submit a report based on
    16  the  findings  of  the study to the governor, the temporary president of
    17  the senate, the speaker of the assembly,  the  minority  leader  of  the
    18  senate,  the  minority  leader  of the assembly, the chair of the senate
    19  transportation committee, and the chair of the  assembly  transportation
    20  committee  which  shall  include the findings and recommendations of the
    21  study described in section one of this act.
    22    § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    23  have become a law.

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