New York S 2243: Requires highway projects that receive state funding to include the installation of broadband conduits and provides for access to such conduits

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S02243 Summary:

BILL NOS02243 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORCOONEY

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COSPNSRHINCHEY, LIU, SEPULVEDA

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §23, Transp L; add §119-e, Pub Serv L

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Requires highway projects that receive state funding to include the installation of broadband conduits suitable for fiber optic cables or wireless facilities that support broadband services; provides for access to such conduits on a competitively neutral and nondiscriminatory basis, for a charge not to exceed a cost-based rate.

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BILL NOS02243 

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01/16/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 2243

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 16, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. COONEY, HINCHEY, LIU, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and
 ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
 Transportation

 AN ACT to amend the transportation law and the public service law, in
 relation to requiring highway projects that receive state funding to
 include the installation of broadband conduits and providing for
 access to such conduits

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The transportation law is amended by adding a new section
 2 23 to read as follows:
 3 § 23. Broadband conduit requirement for certain highway projects.
 4 Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any highway
 5 project which receives state funding shall include the installation of
 6 conduits suitable for fiber optic cables or wireless facilities that
 7 support broadband services.
 8 § 2. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 119-e
 9 to read as follows:
 10 § 119-e. Broadband conduit access. The commission, in consultation
 11 with the department of transportation, shall ensure that any requesting
 12 provider of broadband services has access to any broadband conduit
 13 installed pursuant to the provisions of section twenty-three of the
 14 transportation law. Such access shall be on a competitively neutral and
 15 nondiscriminatory basis, for a charge not to exceed a cost-based rate.
 16 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 17 have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03565-01-5

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