NY State Senate Bill 2023-S3545

Senate Bill S3545

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires 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

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee

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- In Committee Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Delivered to Governor
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2023-S3545 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A4043
Current Committee:: Senate Transportation
Law Section:: Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §1269-b, Pub Auth L

2023-S3545 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires 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 maintained by the authority on the authority's website; requires sources of funding to be specified.

2023-S3545 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S3545

SPONSOR: RAMOS
 
TITLE OF BILL:

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

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

Requires the metropolitan transit authority to include additional infor-
mation regarding capital projects on the "Capital Program Dashboard" on
the authority's website.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends section 1269-b of the public authorities law to add the
following new requirements for the NITA's Capital Program Dashboard for
each project: a listing of all contract numbers, vendors, and contrac-
tors; all sources of funding for the project; and coding regarding

whether the project is related to accessibility or resiliency. Section 1
also provides definitions for fund sources, accessibility, and resilien-
cy for purposes of the legislation and clarifies plain language require-
ments for the dashboard.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

While there have been increased efforts by the NITA to expand transpar-
ency on how they are allocating funds in their operating and capital
budgets, it is still not enough. The VITA provides a wealth of informa-
tion on capital projects, contractors, and spending, but it is scattered
through dozens of documents (often PDFs), making it difficult for the
public to connect the dots to see for themselves how their taxpayer and
fare dollars are being spent. The capital dashboard is currently the
MTA's central repository for capital project information; and can be
improved with more complete data about projects, including their
finances.

Our legislation mandates that the NITA post a listing of all contract
numbers, vendors, and contractors associated with the project, all
sources of funding for projects, and coding regarding whether the
project is related to accessibility or sustainability. in addition; in
the bill accessibility projects are specified as regarding elevators,
escalators, or compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act,
resiliency is defined by the NIT in its twenty-year needs assessments
and definitions must be provided in the data dictionary.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately

2023-S3545 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3545
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 31, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 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

 S. 3545                             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.

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