STATE OF NEW YORK
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100
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
(Prefiled)
January 4, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. RYAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed 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.
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