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; provides for access to such conduits on a competitively neutral and nondiscriminatory basis, for a charge not to exceed a cost-based rate.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9551
IN SENATE
May 16, 2024
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Introduced by Sens. COONEY, HINCHEY, LIU, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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:
1 Section 1. The transportation law is amended by adding a new section
2 23 to read as follows:
3 § 23. Broadband conduit requirement for certain highway projects.
4 Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any highway
5 project which receives state funding shall include the installation of
6 conduits suitable for fiber optic cables or wireless facilities that
7 support broadband services.
8 § 2. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 119-e
9 to read as follows:
10 § 119-e. Broadband conduit access. The commission, in consultation
11 with the department of transportation, shall ensure that any requesting
12 provider of broadband services has access to any broadband conduit
13 installed pursuant to the provisions of section twenty-three of the
14 transportation law. Such access shall be on a competitively neutral and
15 nondiscriminatory basis, for a charge not to exceed a cost-based rate.
16 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
17 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03105-04-4
