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

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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]

Download: New_York-2023-A03180-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3180--A

                               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,
          GONZALEZ-ROJAS, RAGA, CUNNINGHAM, BURDICK, MAMDANI, LEVENBERG,  MEEKS,
          KELLES,  CLARK,  SHRESTHA, LUNSFORD, DE LOS SANTOS, BORES -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Transportation -- recommitted to  the
          Committee on Transportation in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2
          --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
          and recommitted to said committee

        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-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  ations and organizations, to  assist  agencies  with  jurisdiction  over
     2  projects  subject  to  the  provisions of this section in complying with
     3  this section.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     5  it  shall  have become a law; provided, however, that this act shall not
     6  apply to transportation projects undertaken or  approved  prior  to  the
     7  date  on  which this act shall have become a law. Effective immediately,
     8  the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or  regulation  neces-
     9  sary  for  the  implementation  of  this  act  on its effective date are
    10  authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.