Assembly Bill A8936

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to complete street design features and funding of construction and improvements at a municipalities' expense

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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-A8936 - Details

Law Section:
Highway Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §80-b, Hway L

2021-A8936 - Summary

Increases state funding for construction and improvements by the department of transportation where the municipality agrees to fund a complete street design feature as a component of the project.

2021-A8936 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8936
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 19, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to complete  street  design
   features  and  funding  of  construction and improvements at a munici-
   palities' expense
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  80-b  of the highway law, as
 amended by section 3 of part A of chapter 57 of the  laws  of  2014,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   1.  In  connection  with  the undertaking of any project for which the
 commissioner is authorized to  use  moneys  of  the  federal  government
 pursuant  to  the provisions of subdivision thirty-four-a of section ten
 and section eighty of this chapter to assure the effective discharge  of
 state responsibilities with respect to regional transportation needs, on
 highways, roads, streets, bicycle paths or pedestrian paths that are not
 on  the state highway system, the commissioner shall submit such project
 to the governing body or bodies of the affected municipality or  munici-
 palities  together  with  estimates  of  costs  thereof. If such project
 includes a municipal project, as that term is defined in accordance with
 article thirteen of the transportation law,  the  state  share  of  such
 municipal  project  shall  also  be included. If such project includes a
 project affecting a highway, road, street, bicycle  path  or  pedestrian
 path  not on the state highway system, the state share shall be equal to
 eighty percent of the difference between the total project cost and  the
 federal assistance, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THE STATE SHARE SHALL BE EQUAL TO
 EIGHTY-TWO  AND  ONE-HALF  PERCENT  OF  THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TOTAL
 PROJECT COST AND THE FEDERAL ASSISTANCE WHERE  AS  A  COMPONENT  OF  THE
 PROJECT THE MUNICIPALITY AGREES TO FUND A COMPLETE STREET DESIGN FEATURE
 AS  DEFINED  IN  SECTION  THREE  HUNDRED  THIRTY-ONE  OF  THIS  CHAPTER,
 provided, [however] FURTHER, the commissioner  may  increase  the  state
 share  to  an  amount  equal  to  one  hundred percent of the difference
 between the total project cost and the federal assistance  where  he  OR
 SHE  determines that the need for the project results substantially from
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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2021-A8936A (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Highway Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §80-b, Hway L

2021-A8936A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases state funding for construction and improvements by the department of transportation where the municipality agrees to fund a complete street design feature as a component of the project.

2021-A8936A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8936--A
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 19, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. FAHY, HUNTER, SEAWRIGHT, WOERNER, DICKENS, STERN,
   ZINERMAN,  JACOBSON,  THIELE,  McMAHON,  GALEF,  SILLITTI,  GOTTFRIED,
   ENGLEBRIGHT, SIMON, RAJKUMAR, OTIS, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, GLICK -- read once
   and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Transportation   --   committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee

 AN  ACT  to amend the highway law, in relation to complete street design
   features and funding of construction and  improvements  at  a  munici-
   palities' expense
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of  section  80-b  of  the  highway  law,  as
 amended  by  section  3  of part A of chapter 57 of the laws of 2014, is
 amended to read as follows:
   1. In connection with the undertaking of any  project  for  which  the
 commissioner  is  authorized  to  use  moneys  of the federal government
 pursuant to the provisions of subdivision thirty-four-a of  section  ten
 and  section eighty of this chapter to assure the effective discharge of
 state responsibilities with respect to regional transportation needs, on
 highways, roads, streets, bicycle paths or pedestrian paths that are not
 on the state highway system, the commissioner shall submit such  project
 to  the governing body or bodies of the affected municipality or munici-
 palities together with estimates  of  costs  thereof.  If  such  project
 includes a municipal project, as that term is defined in accordance with
 article  thirteen  of  the  transportation  law, the state share of such
 municipal project shall also be included. If  such  project  includes  a
 project  affecting  a  highway, road, street, bicycle path or pedestrian
 path not on the state highway system, the state share shall be equal  to
 eighty  percent of the difference between the total project cost and the
 federal assistance, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THE STATE SHARE SHALL BE EQUAL TO
 EIGHTY-SEVEN AND ONE-HALF PERCENT OF THE DIFFERENCE  BETWEEN  THE  TOTAL
 PROJECT  COST AND THE FEDERAL ASSISTANCE WHERE, IN CONJUNCTION WITH SUCH
 PROJECT, THE MUNICIPALITY  AGREES  TO  FUND  A  COMPLETE  STREET  DESIGN
 FEATURE  AS DEFINED IN SECTION THREE HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE OF THIS CHAPTER,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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