Bill Text: NY S00131 | 2025-2026 | 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 11-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S00131 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S00131-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           131

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  RYAN  S, BAILEY, BRISPORT, BROUK, CLEARE, COONEY,
          GIANARIS, GONZALEZ, MAY, PARKER, SEPULVEDA -- read twice  and  ordered
          printed,  and  when printed to be committed to the Committee on Trans-
          portation

        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 and a new  subdivi-
     3  sion (e) is added to read as follows:
     4    (a)  For  all state, county and local transportation projects that are
     5  undertaken by the department or receive [both] federal [and],  state  or
     6  both  federal  and state funding and are subject to department of trans-
     7  portation oversight, the department or  agency  with  jurisdiction  over
     8  such  projects  shall consider the convenient access and mobility on the
     9  road network by all users of all ages, including motorists, pedestrians,
    10  bicyclists, and public transportation users through the use of  complete
    11  street  design  features  in  the planning, design, construction, recon-
    12  struction and rehabilitation, but  not  including  resurfacing,  mainte-
    13  nance, or pavement recycling of such projects.
    14    (e)  The  department  may  compile and make available publicly, on its
    15  website, design guidance and reference material related to consideration
    16  of complete street design, including but not limited to the department's
    17  highway design guidance, federal highway  administration  guidance,  and
    18  guidance  from  nationally recognized highway and transportation associ-
    19  ations and organizations, to  assist  agencies  with  jurisdiction  over
    20  projects  subject  to  the  provisions of this section in complying with
    21  this section.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 131                              2

     1    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     2  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that this act  shall  not
     3  apply  to  transportation  projects  undertaken or approved prior to the
     4  date on which this act shall have become a law.  Effective  immediately,
     5  the  addition,  amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
     6  sary for the implementation of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are
     7  authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.