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                                  3180--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 2, 2023
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. BARRETT, SEAWRIGHT, PAULIN, WOERNER, DICKENS,
   THIELE, SILLITTI, STIRPE, OTIS, SIMON, GLICK, CARROLL, EPSTEIN, STECK,
   GONZALEZ-ROJAS, RAGA, CUNNINGHAM, BURDICK, MAMDANI, LEVENBERG,  MEEKS,
   KELLES,  CLARK,  SHRESTHA, LUNSFORD, DE LOS SANTOS, BORES -- read once
   and referred to the Committee on Transportation -- recommitted to  the
   Committee on Transportation in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2
   --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
   and recommitted to said committee
 
 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:
 
   Section  1.    Subdivision  (a)  of section 331 of the highway law, as
 added by chapter 398 of the laws of 2011, is amended and a new  subdivi-
 sion (e) is added to read as follows:
   (a)  For  all state, county and local transportation projects that are
 undertaken by the department or receive [both] federal [and],  state  OR
 BOTH  FEDERAL  AND STATE funding and are subject to department of trans-
 portation oversight, the department or  agency  with  jurisdiction  over
 such  projects  shall consider the convenient access and mobility on the
 road network by all users of all ages, including motorists, pedestrians,
 bicyclists, and public transportation users through the use of  complete
 street  design  features  in  the planning, design, construction, recon-
 struction and rehabilitation, but  not  including  resurfacing,  mainte-
 nance, or pavement recycling of such projects.
   (E)  THE  DEPARTMENT  MAY  COMPILE AND MAKE AVAILABLE PUBLICLY, ON ITS
 WEBSITE, DESIGN GUIDANCE AND REFERENCE MATERIAL RELATED TO CONSIDERATION
 OF COMPLETE STREET DESIGN, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE DEPARTMENT'S
 HIGHWAY DESIGN GUIDANCE, FEDERAL HIGHWAY  ADMINISTRATION  GUIDANCE,  AND
 GUIDANCE  FROM  NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORTATION ASSOCI-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01435-02-4
              

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 ATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS, TO  ASSIST  AGENCIES  WITH  JURISDICTION  OVER
 PROJECTS  SUBJECT  TO  THE  PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION IN COMPLYING WITH
 THIS SECTION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it  shall  have become a law; provided, however, that this act shall not
 apply to transportation projects undertaken or  approved  prior  to  the
 date  on  which this act shall have become a law. Effective immediately,
 the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or  regulation  neces-
 sary  for  the  implementation  of  this  act  on its effective date are
 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.