Assembly Bill A7838

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires highway projects that receive state funding to include the installation of broadband conduits and provides for access to such conduits

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A7838 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1631
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Transportation Law
Laws Affected:
Add §23, Transp L; add §119-d, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A650, S1362, S9551

2021-A7838 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2021-A7838 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7838
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 27, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- read once and referred 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:
 
   Section  1.  The transportation law is amended by adding a new section
 23 to read as follows:
   § 23. BROADBAND CONDUIT  REQUIREMENT  FOR  CERTAIN  HIGHWAY  PROJECTS.
 NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  PROVISION  OF  LAW  TO  THE  CONTRARY, ANY HIGHWAY
 PROJECT WHICH RECEIVES STATE FUNDING SHALL INCLUDE THE  INSTALLATION  OF
 CONDUITS  SUITABLE  FOR  FIBER  OPTIC CABLES OR WIRELESS FACILITIES THAT
 SUPPORT BROADBAND SERVICES.
   § 2. The public service law is amended by adding a new  section  119-d
 to read as follows:
   §  119-D.  BROADBAND  CONDUIT  ACCESS. THE COMMISSION, IN CONSULTATION
 WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, SHALL ENSURE THAT ANY  REQUESTING
 PROVIDER  OF  BROADBAND  SERVICES  HAS  ACCESS  TO ANY BROADBAND CONDUIT
 INSTALLED PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS  OF  SECTION  TWENTY-THREE  OF  THE
 TRANSPORTATION  LAW. SUCH ACCESS SHALL BE ON A COMPETITIVELY NEUTRAL AND
 NONDISCRIMINATORY BASIS, FOR A CHARGE NOT TO EXCEED A COST-BASED RATE.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08550-01-1

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