Bill Text: NY S02243 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires highway projects that receive state funding to include the installation of broadband conduits suitable for fiber optic cables or wireless facilities that support broadband services; provides for access to such conduits on a competitively neutral and nondiscriminatory basis, for a charge not to exceed a cost-based rate.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-16 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S02243 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S02243-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2243

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 16, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  COONEY, HINCHEY, LIU, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Transportation

        AN  ACT  to  amend the transportation law and the public service law, in
          relation to requiring highway projects that receive state  funding  to
          include  the  installation  of  broadband  conduits  and providing for
          access to such conduits

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

     1    Section  1.  The transportation law is amended by adding a new section
     2  23 to read as follows:
     3    § 23. Broadband conduit  requirement  for  certain  highway  projects.
     4  Notwithstanding  any  provision  of  law  to  the  contrary, any highway
     5  project which receives state funding shall include the  installation  of
     6  conduits  suitable  for  fiber  optic cables or wireless facilities that
     7  support broadband services.
     8    § 2. The public service law is amended by adding a new  section  119-e
     9  to read as follows:
    10    §  119-e.  Broadband  conduit  access. The commission, in consultation
    11  with the department of transportation, shall ensure that any  requesting
    12  provider  of  broadband  services  has  access  to any broadband conduit
    13  installed pursuant to the provisions  of  section  twenty-three  of  the
    14  transportation  law. Such access shall be on a competitively neutral and
    15  nondiscriminatory basis, for a charge not to exceed a cost-based rate.
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    17  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03565-01-5