Bill Text: NY S00199 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires the department of transportation to annually prepare and submit to the legislature certain highway pavement and bridge condition reports.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-06-10 - SUBSTITUTED BY A4010B [S00199 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S00199-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 199--B Cal. No. 420 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 6, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sens. KAPLAN, KENNEDY, COONEY, GAUGHRAN, HINCHEY, KAMIN- SKY, MANNION, MAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to requiring the department of transportation to annually prepare and submit to the legislature certain highway pavement and bridge condition reports 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 a 2 new subdivision 36 to read as follows: 3 36. To prepare and submit reports on highway pavement and bridge 4 conditions, capital program letting and implementation, capital program 5 accomplishments, and non-MTA downstate suburban and upstate transit 6 capital programs. The commissioner shall be responsible for issuing the 7 following reports in a searchable electronic format accessible to users 8 to the governor, temporary president of the senate, speaker of the 9 assembly, the chair of the senate transportation committee, the chair of 10 the assembly transportation committee, the chair of the senate finance 11 committee and the chair of the assembly ways and means committee: 12 (a) On or before January first, two thousand twenty-two and by January 13 first of each year thereafter, a report for each forthcoming state 14 fiscal year detailing the department's on-state system capital projects 15 and off-state system local capital projects, as defined in subdivision 16 two-a of section two of the state finance law, planned for the forthcom- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03335-08-1S. 199--B 2 1 ing fiscal year including projects receiving funds pursuant to New York 2 works. Such report shall include projects expected to be advertised for 3 public bid in the respective state fiscal year, including estimated 4 letting dates by department region. The report shall also include a 5 project description, proposed month of letting, project identification 6 number, and project cost estimates. Such report shall present project 7 letting details by department region, within region by funding source, 8 within funding source by capital program category (pavement preserva- 9 tion, pavement reconstruction, bridge preservation, bridge rehabili- 10 tation or replacement, safety, mobility, and other), and within capital 11 program category by project phase (scoping, preliminary engineering, 12 right-of-way, final design and construction). After completion of each 13 quarter, the department shall issue a report, including the actual 14 letting dates and contract amounts for each project accompanied by the 15 same information. The report shall also compare changes in planned 16 construction lettings with actual project lettings, changes in project 17 costs of more than twenty-five percent for projects exceeding fifteen 18 million dollars and the contributing factors for such project cost 19 changes, and changes in project letting schedules of more than twelve 20 months and contributing factors for such changes in letting schedules, 21 and the estimated number of jobs created by each project. 22 (b) On or before June first, two thousand twenty-two and by June first 23 of each year thereafter, an accomplishment report for the prior state 24 fiscal year detailing the amount of funding obligated for major capital 25 program categories including: pavement preservation, pavement recon- 26 struction, bridge preservation, bridge rehabilitation or replacement, 27 safety, and mobility. Such capital report shall present details by 28 department region, within region by funding source, within funding 29 source by capital program category and within capital program category 30 by project phase, including by scoping, preliminary engineering, right- 31 of-way, final design and construction phase. 32 (c) On or before June first, two thousand twenty-two and by June first 33 of each year thereafter, a highway pavement and bridge condition report 34 that details conditions of state highway pavement by department region 35 and statewide condition goals for pavement, the condition of state and 36 locally owned bridges by county and the statewide condition goals for 37 bridge conditions, as well as the respective goals for each of these 38 classes for the previous three years. 39 (d) (i) On or before June first, two thousand twenty-two and by June 40 first of each year thereafter, a report detailing the allocation and 41 disbursement for the prior state fiscal year of capital funds appropri- 42 ated for public transportation providers within the metropolitan commu- 43 ter transportation district that exclude the metropolitan transportation 44 authority and its subsidiaries, and for public transportation providers 45 outside the metropolitan commuter transportation district. The report on 46 capital fund use shall indicate the amount of capital funds allocated 47 and disbursed to each respective transportation provider by capital 48 element, including, but not limited to: rolling stock and buses, passen- 49 ger stations, track, line equipment, line structures, signals and commu- 50 nications, power equipment, emergency power equipment and substations, 51 shops, yards, maintenance facilities, depots and terminals, service 52 vehicles, security systems, electrification extensions, and unspecified, 53 miscellaneous and emergency. 54 (ii) On or before June first, two thousand twenty-two and by June 55 first of every fifth year thereafter, the department shall conduct a 56 needs assessment for each public transportation provider that includesS. 199--B 3 1 but is not limited to: vehicle age and condition, facility and equipment 2 state of good repair, and consistency with federal and state system 3 safety plans. For purposes of this subparagraph, the term "public trans- 4 portation provider" shall mean those public transportation systems 5 receiving capital funds from the state, and the term "public transporta- 6 tion system" shall have the same meaning as such term is defined in 7 subdivision one of section eighteen-a of this article. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.