New York Senate Bill S07867 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7867  IN SENATE January 3, 2024 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to requiring the department of transportation to develop an updated New York state bicycle and pedestrian plan 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 37 to read as follows: 3 37. (a) To develop an updated New York state bicycle and pedestrian 4 plan, adapted from the department's nineteen hundred ninety-seven New 5 York state bicycle and pedestrian plan for action on infrastructure and 6 programming, and identify steps for the implementation, integration, and 7 evaluation of such plan. 8 (b) Such updated plan shall address changing circumstances in bicycle 9 and pedestrian policy, including but not limited to bicycle sharing 10 programs, the state's complete streets programs pursuant to section 11 three hundred thirty-one of the highway law, the expansion of electric 12 scooters and bicycles with electric assist as defined by sections one 13 hundred fourteen-e and one hundred two-c of the vehicle and traffic law, 14 and recommendations for updates to state laws and policies to encourage 15 bicycle and pedestrian safety. 16 (c) Such updated plan shall be developed no later than December thir- 17 ty-first, two thousand twenty-five and shall be re-evaluated and updated 18 pursuant to the requirements of this subdivision every five years there- 19 after. Such plan shall be made publicly available upon its development. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD11786-01-3