Bill Text: NY S00184 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires a study of the performance of the state's roadways in reducing the risk of motor vehicles departing the travel lane and overturning, or colliding with fixed objects, or colliding with motorized or non-motorized vehicles or pedestrians, or leaving the roadway; further requires the commissioner of transportation and the thruway authority to submit a report to the governor and legislature and prohibits any data from the study to be used in certain court proceedings.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-20 - PRINT NUMBER 184A [S00184 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00184-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         184--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  DIAZ  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation  --  recom-
          mitted  to  the  Committee on Transportation in accordance with Senate
          Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to amend the transportation law and the public authorities law,
          in relation to the study and examination of the state's  roadways  and
          the thruway in reducing certain motor vehicle risks
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1.  Section 14 of the transportation law is amended by  adding
     2  a new subdivision 36 to read as follows:
     3    36.  To  study  and examine the performance of the state's roadways in
     4  reducing the risk of motor vehicles departing the travel lane and  over-
     5  turning, or colliding with fixed objects, or colliding with motorized or
     6  non-motorized  vehicles  or  pedestrians,  or  leaving the roadway. Such
     7  study and examination shall include, but not be limited to, segments  of
     8  the  state's  roadways with a high number of fatal crashes, and segments
     9  of roadway with hazardous features such as  steep  slopes,  embankments,
    10  cliffs, drop-offs or deep bodies of water. The commissioner shall submit
    11  a  report on lane departures, utilizing existing data whenever possible,
    12  beginning no later than August thirty-first, two thousand seventeen  and
    13  annually  thereafter,  to  the governor and the legislature which report
    14  shall include but shall not be limited to: (a) the number  and  type  of
    15  travel lane departure crashes on the state's roadways including, but not
    16  limited  to,  fixed  object, head-on, cross-over, rollover and sideswipe
    17  crashes, roadway departures, and those involving non-motorized  vehicles
    18  and  pedestrians;  (b)  the  extent to which the department has analyzed
    19  crash data and identified and considered the safety needs of the state's
    20  roadways  including  but  not  limited  to  high-fatality  segments  and
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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