New York S 3134: Relates to the creation of a toll-free hotline and a website where motorists can report potholes

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S03134 Summary:

BILL NOS03134 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORCOONEY

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COSPNSRHARCKHAM

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §14, Transp L

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Requires the department of transportation to maintain a website or webpage where users may report defects on state highways and bridges.

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BILL NOS03134 

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01/23/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

04/21/2026REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3134

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 23, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. COONEY, HARCKHAM -- 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 maintain a website or webpage where
 users may report defects on state highways and bridges

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

 1 Section 1. Section 14 of the transportation law is amended by adding a
 2 new subdivision 37 to read as follows:
 3 37. (a) The department shall maintain a toll-free twenty-four hour
 4 defect-reporting hotline and shall develop and make available a website,
 5 or develop and make available a page on its website:
 6 (i) providing an opportunity for website users to report defects on
 7 state highways and bridges, as well as any other arteries within the
 8 department's jurisdiction; and
 9 (ii) providing a web mapping service application displaying the
 10 locations of the reported defects and any departmental actions respond-
 11 ing to and remedying the reported defects. Mapping service applications
 12 shall include any additional information the department deems necessary.
 13 (b) The website shall (i) make provision for each defect reporter to
 14 provide their name, as well as an electronic mail address or telephone
 15 number at which the reporter can be contacted by the department with
 16 updates on the defect reported, though anonymous reporting shall also be
 17 permitted;
 18 (ii) track and preserve defects reported in list and map format; and
 19 (iii) provide an option for reporting of region- and highway-wide
 20 defects as well as specific defects along more particularized locations,
 21 including, without limitation, mile markers.
 22 (c) The listing and map shall be updated no less than once every five
 23 days to reflect any defects reported and repairs made. Defects and

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01292-01-5

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 1 repairs reported shall be preserved for a minimum of three hundred
 2 sixty-five days from the time of reporting or repair.
 3 (d) The department may collect and report such additional information
 4 and issues with respect to highway and bridge conditions and defects as
 5 it deems necessary.
 6 (e) The department shall also enable persons to report defects located
 7 on the state thruway system on this interactive website and application,
 8 and is authorized and directed to coordinate with the thruway authority
 9 in creating or modifying the interactive website and application to
 10 share, or enable the thruway authority to receive, reports of defects in
 11 locations for which it is responsible no more than twenty-four hours
 12 after the defect is reported. The department is authorized to provide
 13 the thruway authority with joint access to maintain and monitor the
 14 interactive website and application, and may enter into a cost-sharing
 15 arrangement with the authority.
 16 (f) To the extent practicable, the department shall communicate
 17 defects reported to its interactive website and application on county
 18 roads and town highways to the local official responsible for such road
 19 or highway. The commissioner shall discuss any difficulties encountered
 20 by such commissioner in implementing this paragraph during the joint
 21 legislative budget hearing convened pursuant to article VII of the state
 22 co