A10607 • 2025

Enacts the stop highway community harm act

Housing

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Emerita Torres
Last action: 2026-05-26
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Enacts the stop highway community harm act

Enacts the stop highway community harm act Prevents an increase in vehicular lane capacity of highways within two hundred feet of certain public housing facilities, in areas with high rates of asthma, and in environmental justice communities.

What This Bill Does

Enacts the stop highway community harm act Prevents an increase in vehicular lane capacity of highways within two hundred feet of certain public housing facilities, in areas with high rates of asthma, and in environmental justice communities.

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Bill History

2026-05-26 Assembly
AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO TRANSPORTATION
2026-05-26 Assembly
PRINT NUMBER 10607B
2026-03-25 Assembly
AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO TRANSPORTATION
2026-03-25 Assembly
PRINT NUMBER 10607A
2026-03-13 Assembly
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

Official Summary Text

Enacts the stop highway community harm act
Prevents an increase in vehicular lane capacity of highways within two hundred feet of certain public housing facilities, in areas with high rates of asthma, and in environmental justice communities.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          10607

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                     March 13, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. TORRES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation

        AN  ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to preventing adding width
          or lanes to state highways within one hundred feet of  certain  public
          housing facilities

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "stop high-
     2  way community harm act".
     3    § 2. Section 10 of the highway law is amended by adding a new subdivi-
     4  sion 4-a to read as follows:
     5    4-A. NOT APPROVE ANY FINAL PLANS, SPECIFICATIONS OR  ESTIMATES  FOR  A
     6  STATE  HIGHWAY IF SUCH PLANS, SPECIFICATIONS OR ESTIMATES INCLUDE ADDING
     7  WIDTH OR LANES TO SUCH HIGHWAY WITHIN ONE HUNDRED  FEET  OF  A  FEDERAL,
     8  STATE,  OR MUNICIPAL HOUSING PROJECT OR PUBLIC HOUSING FACILITY, AS SUCH
     9  TERMS ARE DEFINED IN THE PUBLIC HOUSING LAW, LOCATED WITHIN A  ZIP  CODE
    10  WITH A THREE-YEAR AVERAGE ASTHMA EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT INCIDENCE RATE PER
    11  TEN THOUSAND PERSONS OF GREATER THAN SEVENTY ACCORDING TO THE DEPARTMENT
    12  OF HEALTH.
    13    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15224-01-6