Bill Text: NY S01801 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S01801 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S01801-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1801
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 11, 2017
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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 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.
    13    § 2. 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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