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S04189 Summary:

BILL NOS04189A
 
SAME ASSAME AS A08812
 
SPONSORKENNEDY
 
COSPNSRCARLUCCI, KAPLAN
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §14, Transp L
 
Requires the department of transportation to maintain a website or webpage where users may report defects on state highways and bridges.
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S04189 Actions:

BILL NOS04189A
 
03/04/2019REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
06/16/2019AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO TRANSPORTATION
06/16/2019PRINT NUMBER 4189A
06/18/2019COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
06/18/2019ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1547
06/19/2019PASSED SENATE
06/19/2019DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
06/19/2019referred to transportation
01/08/2020died in assembly
01/08/2020returned to senate
01/08/2020REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
03/03/2020REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
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S04189 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         4189--A
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      March 4, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by Sens. KENNEDY, CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee
 
        AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in  relation  to  requiring  the
          department  of  transportation  to maintain a website or webpage where
          users may report defects on state highways and bridges
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 14 of the transportation law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 36 to read as follows:
     3    36.  (a)  The  department  shall maintain a toll-free twenty-four hour
     4  defect-reporting hotline and shall develop and make available a website,
     5  or develop and make available a page on its website:
     6    (i) providing an opportunity for website users to  report  defects  on
     7  state  highways  and  bridges,  as well as any other arteries within the
     8  department's jurisdiction; and
     9    (ii) providing  a  web  mapping  service  application  displaying  the
    10  locations  of the reported defects and any departmental actions respond-
    11  ing to and remedying the reported defects. Mapping service  applications
    12  shall include any additional information the department deems necessary.
    13    (b)  The  website shall (i) make provision for each defect reporter to
    14  provide his or her name, as well as an electronic mail address or  tele-
    15  phone  number  at  which the reporter can be contacted by the department
    16  with updates on the defect reported, though  anonymous  reporting  shall
    17  also be permitted;
    18    (ii) track and preserve defects reported in list and map format; and
    19    (iii)  provide  an  option  for  reporting of region- and highway-wide
    20  defects as well as specific defects along more particularized locations,
    21  including, without limitation, mile markers.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07834-02-9

        S. 4189--A                          2
 
     1    (c) The listing and map shall be updated no less than once every  five
     2  days  to  reflect  any  defects  reported  and repairs made. Defects and
     3  repairs reported shall be preserved  for  a  minimum  of  three  hundred
     4  sixty-five days from the time of reporting or repair.
     5    (d)  The department may collect and report such additional information
     6  and issues with respect to highway and bridge conditions and defects  as
     7  it deems necessary.
     8    (e) The department shall also enable persons to report defects located
     9  on the state thruway system on this interactive website and application,
    10  and  is authorized and directed to coordinate with the thruway authority
    11  in creating or modifying the  interactive  website  and  application  to
    12  share, or enable the thruway authority to receive, reports of defects in
    13  locations  for  which  it  is responsible no more than twenty-four hours
    14  after the defect is  reported. The department is authorized  to  provide
    15  the  thruway  authority  with  joint  access to maintain and monitor the
    16  interactive website and application,  and may enter into a  cost-sharing
    17  arrangement with the authority.
    18    (f)  To  the  extent  practicable,  the  department  shall communicate
    19  defects reported to its interactive website and  application  on  county
    20  roads  and town highways to the local official responsible for such road
    21  or highway.  The  commissioner shall discuss any difficulties she or  he
    22  encounters  in  implementing this paragraph during the joint legislative
    23  budget hearing convened pursuant to article VII of the  state  constitu-
    24  tion  and  section thirty-one of the legislative law, beginning no later
    25  than the hearing to be scheduled in calendar year two thousand twenty.
    26    (g) Nothing in this authorization shall preclude the  department  from
    27  permitting  defects unrelated to the road and highway network from being
    28  reported to this website or application.
    29    (h) Identifying information for the defect reporter  shall  be  exempt
    30  from  the provisions of section eighty-seven of the public officers law,
    31  and shall not be shared by the department or thruway  authority  or  any
    32  entity  with  whom the department or authority contracts in implementing
    33  this legislation.
    34    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    35  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    36  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    37  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    38  completed on or before such effective date.
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