Bill Text: NY A05159 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to consolidated local highway assistance payments; increases the amount of the current cost threshold to $750,000 over which local highway and bridge construction work under the CHIPS program must be contracted through a competitive bid.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A05159 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05159-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5159

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 3, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PALMESANO,  BLANKENBUSH,  BRABENEC,  BYRNES,
          J. M. GIGLIO, GOODELL, HAWLEY, MORINELLO, NORRIS,  SMULLEN,  TAGUE  --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

        AN  ACT to amend the highway law and the transportation law, in relation
          to consolidated local highway assistance payments

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 4 of section 10-c of the high-
     2  way  law, as amended by section 1 of part A of chapter 58 of the laws of
     3  2020, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (e) Funds allocated for local street or highway  projects  under  this
     5  subdivision shall be used to undertake work on a project either with the
     6  municipality's own forces or by contract, provided however, that whenev-
     7  er  the  estimate for the construction contract work exceeds one hundred
     8  thousand dollars but does not exceed [three] seven hundred  fifty  thou-
     9  sand  dollars such work must be performed either with the municipality's
    10  own forces or by contract let by competitive bid in accordance with  the
    11  provisions of section one hundred three of the general municipal law and
    12  provided   further,   however,   that  whenever  the  estimate  for  the
    13  construction contract work exceeds [three] seven hundred fifty  thousand
    14  dollars  such  work must be performed by contract let by competitive bid
    15  in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred  three  of  the
    16  general municipal law.
    17    §  2.  Subdivision  6  of  section  234  of the transportation law, as
    18  amended by section 2 of part A of chapter 58 of the  laws  of  2020,  is
    19  amended to read as follows:
    20    6.  for local street or highway projects, to undertake the work of the
    21  project either with its own forces or by contract, however, whenever the
    22  estimate for  the  construction  contract  work  exceeds  [three]  seven
    23  hundred  fifty  thousand dollars such work must be performed by contract
    24  let by the competitive bid process.
    25    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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