Bill Text: NY S01631 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires highway projects that receive state funding to include the installation of broadband conduits suitable for fiber optic cables or wireless facilities that support broadband services and provides for access to such conduits on a competitively neutral and nondiscriminatory basis, for a charge not to exceed a cost-based rate.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S01631 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01631-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1631

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 14, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the transportation law and the public  service  law,  in
          relation  to  requiring highway projects that receive state funding to
          include the installation  of  broadband  conduits  and  providing  for
          access to such conduits

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

     1    Section 1. The transportation law is amended by adding a  new  section
     2  23 to read as follows:
     3    §  23.  Broadband  conduit  requirement  for certain highway projects.
     4  Notwithstanding any provision  of  law  to  the  contrary,  any  highway
     5  project  which  receives state funding shall include the installation of
     6  conduits suitable for fiber optic cables  or  wireless  facilities  that
     7  support broadband services.
     8    §  2.  The public service law is amended by adding a new section 119-d
     9  to read as follows:
    10    § 119-d. Broadband conduit access.  The  commission,  in  consultation
    11  with  the department of transportation, shall ensure that any requesting
    12  provider of broadband services  has  access  to  any  broadband  conduit
    13  installed  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of section twenty-three of the
    14  transportation law. Such access shall be on a competitively neutral  and
    15  nondiscriminatory basis, for a charge not to exceed a cost-based rate.
    16    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    17  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08550-01-1