Bill Text: NY A00693 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to a state transportation plan; requires such plan include a minimum twenty-year forecast period at the time of adoption, assessing long-range needs spanning such period, including a forecast of highway pavement and bridge conditions; requires the commissioner of transportation to submit a report to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, and the speaker of the assembly, beginning September first, two thousand twenty-two and semi-annually thereafter, a list of those capital projects in the department's capital program that have experienced major schedule changes or major cost changes in letting schedule or construction cost.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 65-9)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to transportation [A00693 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A00693-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 693 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 6, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC, ABINANTI, BARRETT, BRONSON, FAHY, GOTT- FRIED, HUNTER, JOYNER, LUPARDO, MAGNARELLI, OTIS, SANTABARBARA, SEAWRIGHT, SIMON, STECK, STIRPE, ZEBROWSKI, DE LA ROSA, CAHILL, WALLACE, DICKENS, VANEL, PHEFFER AMATO, BARNWELL, PICHARDO, CUSICK, GALEF, LAVINE, JEAN-PIERRE, QUART, RICHARDSON, NIOU, KIM, BICHOTTE, O'DONNELL, DAVILA, COLTON, L. ROSENTHAL, WILLIAMS, CARROLL, D. ROSEN- THAL, EPSTEIN, BARRON, CYMBROWITZ, SOLAGES, DINOWITZ, PAULIN, PERRY, RODRIGUEZ, JONES, WEPRIN, PEOPLES-STOKES, McMAHON, BYRNE, FRIEND, REYES, CRUZ, McDONOUGH, MONTESANO, BRABENEC, PALMESANO, RA, WALSH, M. MILLER, EICHENSTEIN, JACOBSON, GRIFFIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, COOK, ENGLEBRIGHT, GLICK, HEVESI, HYNDMAN, NOLAN, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to a state transpor- tation plan The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 15 of the transportation law, subdivision 2 as 2 amended by chapter 524 of the laws of 2005 and subdivision 3 as amended 3 by chapter 1064 of the laws of 1969, is amended to read as follows: 4 § 15. Comprehensive statewide master plan for transportation. 1. The 5 department shall formulate [and from time to time revise] a long-range 6 comprehensive statewide master plan for the balanced development and 7 coordination of adequate, safe and efficient commuter and general trans- 8 portation facilities and services in the state at reasonable cost to the 9 people, including, but not limited to, state highways[,] and bridges 10 under the jurisdiction of the commissioner, bicycle and pedestrian 11 facilities on such state highways and bridges, rapid transit, freight 12 and passenger railroad, omnibus, marine and other mass transportation 13 facilities and services, excluding rapid transit, railroad, omnibus, 14 marine and other mass transportation facilities and services under the EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03434-01-1A. 693 2 1 jurisdiction of either the metropolitan transportation authority as 2 defined in section two hundred nineteen-c of this chapter or a bi-state 3 public benefit corporation, and public use aviation and airport facili- 4 ties and services[,] whether publicly or privately owned, developed, 5 operated or maintained, excluding airports operated by a bi-state public 6 benefit corporation. Such plan shall include a minimum twenty-year 7 forecast period at the time of adoption, assess long-range needs span- 8 ning such period, include a forecast of pavement and bridge conditions 9 of state highways and bridges under the jurisdiction of the commission- 10 er, and take into consideration: 11 a. the most recent twenty-year transportation plan adopted by each 12 metropolitan planning organization within the state pursuant to subpart 13 C of part 450 of title 23 of the code of federal regulations; and 14 b. the most recent long-range statewide transportation plan and state- 15 wide transportation improvement program developed by the state pursuant 16 to subpart B of part 450 of title 23 of the code of federal regulations. 17 2. The department shall submit such plan to the governor, the tempo- 18 rary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly and to the 19 department of state on or before September first, [nineteen hundred20sixty-eight, and thereafter shall submit appropriate revisions of such21plan] two thousand twenty-two. The department shall review and update 22 such plan at least every five years to extend the forecast period to at 23 least twenty years, provided that the department may revise such plan at 24 any other time without extending such forecast period. The department 25 shall submit all such revised and updated plans to the governor, the 26 temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly and to 27 the department of state [from time to] at the time [as] such revisions 28 are made. The department of state shall review such plan and such 29 revisions and shall submit a report thereon, together with such recom- 30 mendations as it may deem appropriate, to the governor, the temporary 31 president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly. Such plan and 32 such revisions shall become effective upon approval by the governor 33 [and], shall serve thereafter as a guide to the public and publicly 34 assisted development of transportation facilities and services in the 35 state, and the department shall maintain hard copies of the most recent 36 version of such plan and revisions thereto on file as a public document 37 in the office of the commissioner and at each regional office of the 38 department. 39 3. In formulating such plan and any such revisions, the department: 40 a. shall conduct [one or more] at least one public [hearings] hearing 41 in each department region; 42 b. may consult with and cooperate with (i) officials of departments 43 and agencies of the state having duties and responsibilities concerning 44 transportation; 45 (ii) officials and representatives of public corporations as defined 46 in [article one, section three of the general corporation] section 47 sixty-five of the general construction law; 48 (iii) officials and representatives of the federal government, of 49 neighboring states and of interstate agencies on problems affecting 50 transportation in this state; 51 (iv) officials and representatives of carriers and transportation 52 facilities and systems in the state; and 53 (v) persons, organizations and groups utilizing, served by, interested 54 in or concerned with transportation facilities and systems in the state; 55 c. may request and receive from any department, division, board, 56 bureau, commission or other agency of the state or any political subdi-A. 693 3 1 vision thereof or any public authority such assistance and data as may 2 be necessary to enable the department to carry out its responsibilities 3 under this section; and 4 d. may make use of and incorporate in the department's plan, any 5 recognized long-range regional plan for transportation, survey or report 6 developed by any public or private agency. 7 4. The department shall maintain on its public website the proposed 8 and adopted long-range comprehensive statewide master plan and all 9 proposed and adopted revisions thereto, and shall provide a means on 10 such website for the public to submit comments thereon to the depart- 11 ment. 12 § 2. Subdivision 13 of section 14 of the transportation law, as added 13 by chapter 420 of the laws of 1968, is amended to read as follows: 14 13. To report from time to time to the governor and make an annual 15 report to the governor and the legislature which shall include its 16 recommendations. Additionally, the commissioner shall submit a report to 17 the governor, the temporary president of the senate, and the speaker of 18 the assembly, beginning September first, two thousand twenty-two and 19 semi annually thereafter, including a list of those capital projects in 20 the department's capital program that have experienced major schedule 21 changes or major cost changes in letting schedule or construction cost, 22 including projects that were eliminated and projects that were added, 23 since the adoption of the most recent state budget. For each project the 24 report shall include the project identification number and description, 25 original and revised letting dates, and a detailed explanation of why 26 the changes occurred. For the purposes of this subdivision, the term 27 "major schedule changes" is defined as a twelve-month or more delay in 28 the letting date of a project, and the term "major cost changes" is 29 defined as one of the following as applicable: a greater than fifty 30 percent change for projects fifteen million dollars or less, and a 31 greater than twenty-five percent change for projects in excess of 32 fifteen million dollars. 33 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
