What's happening
This bill increases state reimbursement rates to cities for maintaining state arterials and ties future increases to inflation.
Why it matters
Significantly increases funding for city maintenance of state roads. The bill raises the per-square-yard reimbursement from 85 cents to $1.80 for pavement maintenance, and from 10 cents to 20 cents for elevated bridge pavement, providing cities with much-needed additional resources for infrastructure upkeep.
Creates a mechanism for automatic adjustment to reflect real costs. By tying future reimbursement rates to changes in the Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) for the region, the bill ensures that payments will keep pace with inflation, helping cities avoid funding shortfalls as costs rise.
Improves local budgeting and planning certainty. The predictable, inflation-indexed increases make it easier for cities to plan long-term maintenance and repair projects, potentially leading to better road conditions and fewer emergency repairs.
May impact state and local budgets. While beneficial for municipalities, the increased and automatically escalating reimbursement rates could have significant implications for state transportation budgets, possibly requiring adjustments in other spending or revenue sources.
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Raise State Road Payments
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13 Co-sponsors
1 Multi-sponsor
History
- Referred to transportation
- Referred to transportation
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Raise Road Repair Payments
In Senate Committee · Transportation · Sponsor Thomas F. O'Mara
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STATE OF NEW YORK
4141
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 1, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. PALMESANO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to increasing reimbursement rates paid by the state to cities for repair and maintenance of state arterials
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] article and which has been constructed or which shall have been constructed as authorized by section three hundred forty-a of this [chapter] article. 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 eighty 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 to 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
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Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, as published by the United States department of labor bureau of labor statistics, over the prior five years.
§ 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 eighty 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 to 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 immediately.
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