Bill Text: NY S01549 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enables safe access to public roads for all users by utilizing complete street design principles.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-03-03 - referred to transportation [S01549 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S01549-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1549--A
            Cal. No. 148
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 15, 2019
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        Introduced  by Sens. KENNEDY, ADDABBO, BROOKS, GOUNARDES, SAVINO -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee on Transportation -- reported favorably from said committee,
          ordered  to  first  and  second  report,  ordered  to a third reading,
          amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place  in  the  order  of
          third reading
        AN  ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to enabling safe access to
          public roads for all users by utilizing complete street design princi-
          ples
          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 added
     2  by chapter 398 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
     3    (a)  For  all state, county and local transportation projects that are
     4  undertaken by the department or receive both federal and  state  funding
     5  and  are  subject to department of transportation oversight, the depart-
     6  ment or agency with jurisdiction over such projects shall  consider  the
     7  convenient  access  and mobility on the road network by all users of all
     8  ages, including motorists, pedestrians, bicyclists, and public transpor-
     9  tation users through the use of complete street design features  in  the
    10  planning,  design, construction, reconstruction and rehabilitation, [but
    11  not including resurfacing, maintenance, or pavement  recycling  of  such
    12  projects]  resurfacing,  maintenance  and  pavement  recycling  of  such
    13  projects.
    14    § 2. Paragraph (iii) of subdivision (c) of section 331 of the  highway
    15  law,  as added by chapter 398 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as
    16  follows:
    17    (iii) demonstrated lack of need as determined by  factors,  including,
    18  but  not  limited  to,  land use, current and projected traffic volumes,
    19  including population density, or  [demonstrates]  demonstrated  lack  of
    20  community support; or
    21    §  3.  This  act shall take effect immediately, provided that it shall
    22  not apply to transportation projects undertaken or approved prior to the
    23  date on which this act shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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