Bill Text: NY S07885 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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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 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-22 - referred to transportation [S07885 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07885-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7885--A

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 28, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. KAPLAN, KENNEDY, KAMINSKY -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Trans-
          portation  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        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 June first, two thousand twenty and by June first of
    13  each year thereafter, a report for each forthcoming  state  fiscal  year
    14  detailing  the  department's  on-state  system capital projects and off-
    15  state system local capital projects, as defined in subdivision two-a  of
    16  section two of the state finance law, planned for the forthcoming fiscal
    17  year including projects receiving funds pursuant to New York works. Such
    18  report  shall  include projects expected to be advertised for public bid
    19  in the respective state fiscal year, including estimated  letting  dates
    20  by   department   region.  The  report  shall  also  include  a  project
    21  description, proposed month of letting, project  identification  number,
    22  and  project  cost  estimates. Such report shall present project letting
    23  details by department region, within region by  funding  source,  within
    24  funding source by capital program category (pavement preservation, pave-
    25  ment  reconstruction,  bridge  preservation,  bridge  rehabilitation  or

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15558-02-0
        S. 7885--A                          2

     1  replacement, safety, mobility, and other), and  within  capital  program
     2  category  by  project phase (scoping, preliminary engineering, right-of-
     3  way, final design and construction).  After completion of each  quarter,
     4  the  department shall issue a report, including the actual letting dates
     5  and contract amounts for each project accompanied by the  same  informa-
     6  tion.  The  report  shall  also  compare changes in planned construction
     7  lettings with actual project lettings, changes in project costs of  more
     8  than  twenty-five percent for projects exceeding fifteen million dollars
     9  and the contributing factors for such project cost changes,  changes  in
    10  project  letting  schedules  of more than twelve months and contributing
    11  factors for such changes in letting schedules, and the estimated  number
    12  of jobs created by each project.
    13    (b)  On or before June first, two thousand twenty and by June first of
    14  each year thereafter, an  accomplishment  report  for  the  prior  state
    15  fiscal  year detailing the amount of funding obligated for major capital
    16  program categories including:  pavement  preservation,  pavement  recon-
    17  struction,  bridge  preservation,  bridge rehabilitation or replacement,
    18  safety, and mobility. Such  capital  report  shall  present  details  by
    19  department  region,  within  region  by  funding  source, within funding
    20  source by capital program category and within capital  program  category
    21  by  project phase, including by scoping, preliminary engineering, right-
    22  of-way, final design and construction phase.
    23    (c) On or before June first, two thousand twenty and by June first  of
    24  each  year  thereafter,  a  highway pavement and bridge condition report
    25  that details conditions of state highway pavement by  department  region
    26  and  statewide  condition goals for pavement, the condition of state and
    27  locally owned bridges by county and the statewide  condition  goals  for
    28  bridge  conditions,  as  well  as the respective goals for each of these
    29  classes for the previous three years.
    30    (d) On or before June first, two thousand twenty and by June first  of
    31  each year thereafter, a report detailing the allocation and disbursement
    32  for  the prior state fiscal year of funds appropriated for public trans-
    33  portation providers  within  the  metropolitan  commuter  transportation
    34  district  that exclude the metropolitan transportation authority and its
    35  subsidiaries, and for public transportation providers outside the metro-
    36  politan commuter transportation district. The report on fund  use  shall
    37  indicate  the amount of funds allocated and disbursed to each respective
    38  transportation provider by capital element, including, but  not  limited
    39  to:  rolling stock and buses, passenger stations, track, line equipment,
    40  line structures, signals and communications, power equipment,  emergency
    41  power  equipment  and substations, shops, yards, maintenance facilities,
    42  depots and terminals, service vehicles, security  systems,  electrifica-
    43  tion extensions, and unspecified, miscellaneous and emergency.  Further,
    44  the  department  shall conduct a needs assessment for each public trans-
    45  portation provider that includes but is not limited to: vehicle age  and
    46  condition, facility and equipment state of good repair, consistency with
    47  federal  and  state system safety plans, and availability of federal and
    48  local resources to complete a project.
    49    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.