STATE OF NEW YORK
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7885--A
IN SENATE
February 28, 2020
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Introduced by Sens. KAPLAN, KENNEDY, KAMINSKY -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Trans-
portation -- 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 annually prepare and submit to the
legislature certain highway pavement and bridge condition reports
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. To prepare and submit reports on highway pavement and bridge
4 conditions, capital program letting and implementation, capital program
5 accomplishments, and non-MTA downstate suburban and upstate transit
6 capital programs. The commissioner shall be responsible for issuing the
7 following reports in a searchable electronic format accessible to users
8 to the governor, temporary president of the senate, speaker of the
9 assembly, the chair of the senate transportation committee, the chair of
10 the assembly transportation committee, the chair of the senate finance
11 committee and the chair of the assembly ways and means committee:
12 (a) On or before June first, two thousand twenty and by June first of
13 each year thereafter, a report for each forthcoming state fiscal year
14 detailing the department's on-state system capital projects and off-
15 state system local capital projects, as defined in subdivision two-a of
16 section two of the state finance law, planned for the forthcoming fiscal
17 year including projects receiving funds pursuant to New York works. Such
18 report shall include projects expected to be advertised for public bid
19 in the respective state fiscal year, including estimated letting dates
20 by department region. The report shall also include a project
21 description, proposed month of letting, project identification number,
22 and project cost estimates. Such report shall present project letting
23 details by department region, within region by funding source, within
24 funding source by capital program category (pavement preservation, pave-
25 ment reconstruction, bridge preservation, bridge rehabilitation or
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 replacement, safety, mobility, and other), and within capital program
2 category by project phase (scoping, preliminary engineering, right-of-
3 way, final design and construction). After completion of each quarter,
4 the department shall issue a report, including the actual letting dates
5 and contract amounts for each project accompanied by the same informa-
6 tion. The report shall also compare changes in planned construction
7 lettings with actual project lettings, changes in project costs of more
8 than twenty-five percent for projects exceeding fifteen million dollars
9 and the contributing factors for such project cost changes, changes in
10 project letting schedules of more than twelve months and contributing
11 factors for such changes in letting schedules, and the estimated number
12 of jobs created by each project.
13 (b) On or before June first, two thousand twenty and by June first of
14 each year thereafter, an accomplishment report for the prior state
15 fiscal year detailing the amount of funding obligated for major capital
16 program categories including: pavement preservation, pavement recon-
17 struction, bridge preservation, bridge rehabilitation or replacement,
18 safety, and mobility. Such capital report shall present details by
19 department region, within region by funding source, within funding
20 source by capital program category and within capital program category
21 by project phase, including by scoping, preliminary engineering, right-
22 of-way, final design and construction phase.
23 (c) On or before June first, two thousand twenty and by June first of
24 each year thereafter, a highway pavement and bridge condition report
25 that details conditions of state highway pavement by department region
26 and statewide condition goals for pavement, the condition of state and
27 locally owned bridges by county and the statewide condition goals for
28 bridge conditions, as well as the respective goals for each of these
29 classes for the previous three years.
30 (d) On or before June first, two thousand twenty and by June first of
31 each year thereafter, a report detailing the allocation and disbursement
32 for the prior state fiscal year of funds appropriated for public trans-
33 portation providers within the metropolitan commuter transportation
34 district that exclude the metropolitan transportation authority and its
35 subsidiaries, and for public transportation providers outside the metro-
36 politan commuter transportation district. The report on fund use shall
37 indicate the amount of funds allocated and disbursed to each respective
38 transportation provider by capital element, including, but not limited
39 to: rolling stock and buses, passenger stations, track, line equipment,
40 line structures, signals and communications, power equipment, emergency
41 power equipment and substations, shops, yards, maintenance facilities,
42 depots and terminals, service vehicles, security systems, electrifica-
43 tion extensions, and unspecified, miscellaneous and emergency. Further,
44 the department shall conduct a needs assessment for each public trans-
45 portation provider that includes but is not limited to: vehicle age and
46 condition, facility and equipment state of good repair, consistency with
47 federal and state system safety plans, and availability of federal and
48 local resources to complete a project.
49 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.