Assembly Bill A324

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires the consideration of complete street design for certain transportation projects which receive federal or state funding

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2025-A324 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S131
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Highway Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §331, Hway L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A8624, S8394
2023-2024: A3180, S100

2025-A324 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the consideration of complete street design for certain transportation projects which receive federal or state funding; authorizes the department to compile and make publicly available guidance and reference material related to consideration of complete street design.

2025-A324 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    324
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BARRETT, SEAWRIGHT, PAULIN, WOERNER, STIRPE,
   OTIS, SIMON, GLICK, R. CARROLL, EPSTEIN, STECK, GONZALEZ-ROJAS,  RAGA,
   CUNNINGHAM,  BURDICK, MAMDANI, LEVENBERG, MEEKS, KELLES, CLARK, SHRES-
   THA, LUNSFORD,  DE LOS SANTOS,  BORES,  ROSENTHAL  --  read  once  and
   referred 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:
 
   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-
 ATIONS  AND  ORGANIZATIONS,  TO  ASSIST  AGENCIES WITH JURISDICTION OVER
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00174-01-5

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