Bill Text: NY S09718 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enables safe access to public roads for all users by utilizing complete street design principles.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2024-06-03 - referred to ways and means [S09718 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09718-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9718

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 22, 2024
                                       ___________

        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 enabling safe access  to
          public roads for all users by utilizing complete street design princi-
          ples

          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 added
     2  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 funding
     5  and are subject to department of transportation oversight,  the  depart-
     6  ment  or  agency with jurisdiction over such projects shall consider the
     7  convenient access and mobility on the road network by all users  of  all
     8  ages, including motorists, pedestrians, bicyclists, and public transpor-
     9  tation  users  through the use of complete street design features (i) in
    10  the planning, design, construction, reconstruction and  rehabilitation[,
    11  but  not  including  resurfacing, maintenance, or pavement recycling] of
    12  such projects; and (ii) in the  resurfacing,  maintenance  and  pavement
    13  recycling  of  such  projects  if  the service life of such resurfacing,
    14  maintenance or pavement recycling project is at least ten years.
    15    § 2. Paragraph (iii) of subdivision (c) of section 331 of the  highway
    16  law,  as added by chapter 398 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as
    17  follows:
    18    (iii) demonstrated lack of need as determined by  factors,  including,
    19  but  not  limited  to,  land use, current and projected traffic volumes,
    20  including population density, or  [demonstrates]  demonstrated  lack  of
    21  community support; or
    22    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    23  it  shall  have become a law, provided that it shall not apply to trans-
    24  portation projects undertaken or approved prior to  the  date  on  which
    25  this  act shall have become a law.  Effective immediately, the addition,
    26  amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary  for  the
    27  implementation  of  this  act on its effective date are authorized to be
    28  made and completed on or before such effective date.

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