Bill Text: NY A03180 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the consideration of complete street design for certain transportation projects which receive federal or state funding; authorizes the department to compile and make publicly available guidance and reference material related to consideration of complete street design.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 28-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-21 - reported referred to ways and means [A03180 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3180

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 2, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. BARRETT, SEAWRIGHT, PAULIN, WOERNER, DICKENS,
          THIELE, SILLITTI, STIRPE, OTIS, SIMON, GLICK, CARROLL, EPSTEIN,  STECK
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

        AN  ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to requiring the consider-
          ation of complete street design for  certain  transportation  projects
          which receive federal or state funding

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

     1    Section 1.  Subdivision (a) of section 331  of  the  highway  law,  as
     2  added by chapter 398 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
     3    (a)  For  all state, county and local transportation projects that are
     4  undertaken by the department or receive [both] federal [and],  state  or
     5  both  federal  and state funding and are subject to department of trans-
     6  portation oversight, the department or  agency  with  jurisdiction  over
     7  such  projects  shall consider the convenient access and mobility on the
     8  road network by all users of all ages, including motorists, pedestrians,
     9  bicyclists, and public transportation users through the use of  complete
    10  street  design  features  in  the planning, design, construction, recon-
    11  struction and rehabilitation, but  not  including  resurfacing,  mainte-
    12  nance, or pavement recycling of such projects.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01435-01-3