Bill Text: NY S08394 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the consideration of complete street design for certain transportation projects which receive federal or state funding.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-22 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S08394 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S08394-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8394 IN SENATE February 22, 2022 ___________ Introduced by Sen. RYAN -- 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 requiring the consider- ation of complete street design for certain transportation projects which receive federal or state funding 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 2 added 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 or 5 both federal and state funding and are subject to department of trans- 6 portation oversight, the department or agency with jurisdiction over 7 such projects shall consider the convenient access and mobility on the 8 road network by all users of all ages, including motorists, pedestrians, 9 bicyclists, and public transportation users through the use of complete 10 street design features in the planning, design, construction, recon- 11 struction and rehabilitation, but not including resurfacing, mainte- 12 nance, or pavement recycling of such projects. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13347-01-1
