New York A 6437: Increases reimbursement rates paid by the state to cities for repair and maintenance of state arterials

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A06437 Summary:

BILL NOA06437 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORPalmesano

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COSPNSRBlankenbush, Brabenec, Hawley, Morinello, Reilly, Tague, Walsh

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§340-b & 349-c, Hway L

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Increases reimbursement rates paid by the state to cities for repair and maintenance of state arterials; provides rate would be raised to one dollar and eighty 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.

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BILL NOA06437 

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03/04/2025referred to transportation

01/07/2026referred to transportation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6437

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 4, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. PALMESANO, BLANKENBUSH, BRABENEC, HAWLEY, MORI-
 NELLO, REILLY, TAGUE, WALSH -- 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 Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The first undesignated paragraph of subdivision 5-a of
 2 section 340-b of the highway law, as amended by chapter 30 of the laws
 3 of 1987, is amended to read as follows:
 4 The commissioner of transportation and the city of New York, acting
 5 through the mayor or other administrative head thereof, pursuant to a
 6 resolution of the governing body of such city, are authorized to enter
 7 into a written agreement for the maintenance and repair, under the
 8 supervision and subject to the approval of the commissioner of transpor-
 9 tation, of any state interstate highway or portion thereof, exclusive of
 10 service roads and pavement on intersecting street bridges, which is
 11 within the boundaries of such city and which is now or which shall here-
 12 after be designated in section three hundred forty-a of this [chapter]
 13 article and which has been constructed or which shall have been
 14 constructed as authorized by section three hundred forty-a of this
 15 [chapter] article. Such agreement may provide that the state shall pay
 16 annually to such city a sum to be computed at the rate of (a) not more
 17 than [eighty-five] one dollar and eighty cents per square yard of the
 18 pavement area that is included in the state highway system according to
 19 the provisions of this section, and (b) an additional [ten] twenty cents
 20 per square yard of such pavement area where such pavement area is
 21 located on any elevated bridge, such rate to be increased in each year
 22 of the agreement by the percentage change in the consumer price index
 23 for all urban consumers (CPI-U), New York-Northern New Jersey-Long

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03724-01-5

 A. 6437 2

 1 Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, as published by the United States department of
 2 labor bureau of labor statistics, over the prior five years.
 3 § 2. The first undesignated paragraph of subdivision 7 of section
 4 349-c of the highway law, as amended by chapter 30 of the laws of 1987,
 5 is amended to read as follows:
 6 The commissioner of transportation and any city named in this article,
 7 acting through the mayor or other administrative head thereof, pursuant
 8 to a resolution of the governing body of such city except the city of
 9 New York, are authorized to enter into a written agreement for the main-
 10 tenance and repair, under the supervision and subject to the approval of
 11 the commissioner, of any public street, main route or thoroughfare or
 12 portion thereof, exclusive of service roads and pavement on intersecting
 13 street bridges, which is within the boundaries of such city and which is
 14 now or which shall hereafter be designated in this article and which has
 15 been constructed or whic