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Senate Bill S1832

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires the department of transportation to develop an updated New York state bicycle and pedestrian plan

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2025-S1832 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Transportation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §14, Transp L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S7867

2025-S1832 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the department of transportation to develop an updated New York state bicycle and pedestrian plan adapted from the department's nineteen hundred ninety-seven New York state bicycle and pedestrian plan, to be re-evaluated and updated every five years.

2025-S1832 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1832 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1832
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 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:
 
   Section 1. Section 14 of the transportation law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 37 to read as follows:
   37.  (A)  TO  DEVELOP AN UPDATED NEW YORK STATE BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN
 PLAN, ADAPTED FROM THE DEPARTMENT'S NINETEEN  HUNDRED  NINETY-SEVEN  NEW
 YORK  STATE BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN PLAN FOR ACTION ON INFRASTRUCTURE AND
 PROGRAMMING, AND IDENTIFY STEPS FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION, INTEGRATION, AND
 EVALUATION OF SUCH PLAN.
   (B) SUCH UPDATED PLAN SHALL ADDRESS CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES IN  BICYCLE
 AND  PEDESTRIAN  POLICY,  INCLUDING  BUT  NOT LIMITED TO BICYCLE SHARING
 PROGRAMS, THE STATE'S COMPLETE  STREETS  PROGRAMS  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION
 THREE  HUNDRED  THIRTY-ONE OF THE HIGHWAY LAW, THE EXPANSION OF ELECTRIC
 SCOOTERS AND BICYCLES WITH ELECTRIC ASSIST AS DEFINED  BY  SECTIONS  ONE
 HUNDRED FOURTEEN-E AND ONE HUNDRED TWO-C OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW,
 AND  RECOMMENDATIONS FOR UPDATES TO STATE LAWS AND POLICIES TO ENCOURAGE
 BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN SAFETY.
   (C) SUCH UPDATED PLAN SHALL BE DEVELOPED NO LATER THAN DECEMBER  THIR-
 TY-FIRST,  TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SIX AND SHALL BE RE-EVALUATED AND UPDATED
 PURSUANT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SUBDIVISION EVERY FIVE YEARS THERE-
 AFTER. SUCH PLAN SHALL BE MADE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE UPON ITS DEVELOPMENT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05313-01-5

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