Assembly Bill A4043

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   4043
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 9, 2023
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 Introduced  by M. of A. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring the
   metropolitan transportation authority to publish  certain  information
   pertaining to capital project data for projects that are committed for
   construction on the capital program dashboard
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraphs (vii) and (viii) and the closing paragraph of
 paragraph (d) of subdivision 2-a of section 1269-b of the public author-
 ities law, as added by section 1 of part LLL of chapter 58 of  the  laws
 of  2022,  is amended and three new subparagraphs (ix), (x), (xi) and an
 undesignated paragraph are added to read as follows:
   (vii) budget information including the original budget at the time  of
 project  commitment  when  scope and budget are defined, all amendments,
 the current budget and planned annual allocations; [and]
   (viii) a schedule for project delivery including original, amended and
 current start and completion dates as projects develop at each phase[.];
   (IX) A LISTING OF ALL CONTRACT NUMBERS, VENDORS, AND CONTRACTORS ASSO-
 CIATED WITH THE PROJECT;
   (X) ALL SOURCES OF FUNDING FOR THE PROJECT; AND
   (XI) CODING REGARDING WHETHER THE PROJECT IS RELATED TO  ACCESSIBILITY
 OR RESILIENCY.
   FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS PARAGRAPH, SOURCES OF FUNDING SHALL BE SPECI-
 FIED  AS FROM THE STATE OF NEW YORK, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, THE CITY OF
 NEW YORK, OR ANY OTHER RELEVANT SOURCE. FUNDING FROM THE  STATE  OF  NEW
 YORK SHALL FURTHER SPECIFY WHETHER IT HAS BEEN OBTAINED FROM THE CENTRAL
 BUSINESS DISTRICT TOLLING LOCKBOX AS ESTABLISHED BY SECTION FIVE HUNDRED
 FIFTY-THREE-J  OF THIS CHAPTER OR ANY SUCCESSOR FUND OR ACCOUNT PROVIDED
 BY LAW. ACCESSIBILITY SHALL MEAN PROJECTS REGARDING  ELEVATORS,  ESCALA-
 TORS  OR OTHER PROJECTS RELATED TO COMPLIANCE WITH THE FEDERAL AMERICANS
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04144-01-3
              

 A. 4043                             2
 
 WITH DISABILITIES ACT OF 1990, AS AMENDED, AND CORRESPONDING GUIDELINES.
 RESILIENCY SHALL HAVE THE SAME MEANING AS DEFINED BY  THE  AUTHORITY  IN
 ITS  TWENTY-YEAR  NEEDS ASSESSMENT RELEASED IN TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-THREE
 AS  REQUIRED  BY SUBDIVISION C OF SECTION TWELVE HUNDRED SIXTY-NINE-C OF
 THIS TITLE.
   The status of projects shall be provided and state the  current  phase
 of  the  project,  such as planning, design, construction or completion,
 and shall state how far  the  project  has  progressed  as  measured  in
 percentage by expenditure. The dashboard shall measure progress based on
 original budgets at the time of project commitment when scope and budget
 are  defined.  At  a  minimum, all changes to planned budgets of greater
 than ten percent, significant project scope or a  three  month  or  more
 change  in schedule shall be provided in narrative form and describe the
 reason for each change or amendment. The dashboard shall include a glos-
 sary or data dictionary which contains plain  language  descriptions  of
 the  data,  INCLUDING INDIVIDUAL PROJECT DATA, and ANY OTHER information
 provided on the dashboard. THE AUTHORITY SHALL PROVIDE A  DEFINITION  OF
 RESILIENCY  IN  THE  GLOSSARY OR DATA DICTIONARY. The dashboard shall be
 updated, at a minimum, on a quarterly basis, and all data fields  avail-
 able  on  the  dashboard  shall  be  made  available for download on the
 authority's website in a single tabular data file in a  common,  machine
 readable  format. Capital dashboard data shall also be made available on
 the data.ny.gov website or such other successor website  maintained  by,
 or  on behalf of, the state, as deemed appropriate by the New York state
 office of information technology services under executive  order  number
 ninety-five of two thousand thirteen, or any successor agency or order.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.