What's happening
This bill increases the rates paid by New York State to cities for highway maintenance, with annual adjustments based on regional CPI changes.
Why it matters
Directly increases state funding for city highway maintenance. By raising the per-square-yard payment rate, cities will receive more money from the state to maintain and repair state highways within their boundaries, potentially allowing for better road conditions and more timely repairs.
Provides extra support for elevated bridges. The bill doubles the additional rate paid for pavement area on elevated bridges, which are often more costly to maintain, helping cities address the unique challenges posed by this infrastructure.
Links future payments to inflation in the local region. Annual adjustments based on the regional Consumer Price Index mean funding will better keep pace with actual costs faced by cities, reducing the risk that state payments will fall behind rising material and labor expenses.
May reduce the burden on city budgets and local taxpayers. By increasing and indexing state payments, the bill could lessen the need for cities to divert local funds to cover shortfalls, potentially freeing up resources for other municipal needs or limiting future tax increases.
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Increase Highway Repair Payments
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
1 Co-sponsor
History
- Referred to transportation
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 61–0
- Ordered to third reading cal.1553
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Referred to transportation
- Returned to senate
- Died in assembly
- Referred to transportation
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 63–0
- Ordered to third reading cal.1464
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- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Referred to transportation
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Increase City Highway Payments
In Assembly Committee · Transportation · Sponsor Nily Rozic
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STATE OF NEW YORK
4175
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 6, 2017
Introduced by Sens. GOLDEN, PHILLIPS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to the rate paid by the state to a city for maintenance and repair of highways
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The first undesignated paragraph of subdivision 5-a of section 340-b of the highway law, as amended by chapter 30 of the laws of 1987, is amended to read as follows:
The commissioner of transportation and the city of New York, acting through the mayor or other administrative head thereof, pursuant to a resolution of the governing body of such city, are authorized to enter into a written agreement for the maintenance and repair, under the supervision and subject to the approval of the commissioner of transportation, of any state interstate highway or portion thereof, exclusive of service roads and pavement on intersecting street bridges, which is within the boundaries of such city and which is now or which shall hereafter be designated in section three hundred forty-a of this chapter and which has been constructed or which shall have been constructed as authorized by section three hundred forty-a of this chapter. Such agreement may provide that the state shall pay annually to such city a sum to be computed at the rate of (a) not more than [eighty-five] one dollar and seventy-seven cents per square yard of the pavement area that is included in the state highway system according to the provisions of this section, and (b) an additional [ten] twenty cents per square yard of such pavement area where such pavement area is located on any elevated bridge, such rate shall be increased in each year of the agreement by the percentage change in the consumer price index for all urban consumers (CPI-U), New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, as published by the United States department of labor bureau of labor statistics, over the prior five years.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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§ 2. The first undesignated paragraph of subdivision 7 of section 349-c of the highway law, as amended by chapter 30 of the laws of 1987, is amended to read as follows:
The commissioner of transportation and any city named in this article, acting through the mayor or other administrative head thereof, pursuant to a resolution of the governing body of such city except the city of New York, are authorized to enter into a written agreement for the maintenance and repair, under the supervision and subject to the approval of the commissioner, of any public street, main route or thoroughfare or portion thereof, exclusive of service roads and pavement on intersecting street bridges, which is within the boundaries of such city and which is now or which shall hereafter be designated in this article and which has been constructed or which shall have been constructed as authorized by [articles] this article and article four [and twelve-B] of this chapter and with grants made available by the federal government pursuant to the federal aid highway act of nineteen hundred forty-four, being public law five hundred twenty-one of the seventy-eighth congress, chapter six hundred twenty-six, second session, as approved on the twentieth day of December, nineteen hundred forty-four. Such agreement may provide that the state shall pay annually to such city a sum to be computed at the rate of (a) not more than [eighty-five] one dollar and seventy-seven cents per square yard of the pavement area that is included in the state highway system according to the provisions of this section, and (b) an additional [ten] twenty cents per square yard of such pavement area where such pavement area is located on any elevated bridge, such rate shall be increased in each year of the agreement by the percentage change in the consumer price index for all urban consumers (CPI-U), New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, as published by the United States department of labor bureau of labor statistics, over the prior five years.
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
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Sponsor's memo
Title of bill
An act to amend the highway law, in relation to the rate paid by the state to a city for maintenance and repair of highways
Summary of provisions
This bill would amend the highway law to increase the rate used by the State when reimbursing municipalities for maintenance of the state highway system within city borders. The rate would be raised to one dollar and seventy-seven cents from eighty-five cents per square yard of the pavement area that is included in the state highway system and an additional twenty cents, up from ten cents, per square yard of such pavement area where such pavement area is located on any elevated bridge.
This bill provides for the rate to be increased each year by the percentage change in the consumer price index for all urban consumers (CP1-U), New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, as published by the United States Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, over the prior five years.
Justification
Over the last 50 years, the State has delegated responsibility to municipalities to maintain State highways within city borders. The current reimbursement rate covers only 55 percent of the actual costs that municipalities throughout the state bear for the cost of highway maintenance, which includes, among other items, guide rail and fence repair, impact attenuator repair, and pothole maintenance.
This maintenance is essential for a safe ride on our highways.
Since 1987, the State has reimbursed cities at a rate of eighty-five cents per square yard of pavement, with no adjustments for inflation. Cities throughout the state would benefit from raising this rate to onedollar and seventy-seven cents per square yard, a rate reflecting the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increase since 1987. To ensure that the reimbursement rate keeps up with inflation, this bill would also require that the rate be indexed.
Prior legislative history
2016: S.7896 - Senate Transportation Committee
Fiscal implications
Undetermined
Effective date
April 1" in the year following enactment.
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