S1186 • 2025

Relates to providing notice to school districts and nonpublic schools located in N.Y. City of certain construction projects

Education

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Joseph P. Addabbo Jr.
Last action: 2026-06-05
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to providing notice to school districts and nonpublic schools located in N.Y. City of certain construction projects

Relates to providing notice to school districts and nonpublic schools located in N.Y.

What This Bill Does

Relates to providing notice to school districts and nonpublic schools located in N.Y.
City of certain construction projects Relates to providing notice to school districts and nonpublic schools located in New York city of certain construction projects; requires the New York city department of transportation to provide written notice to such school districts and nonpublic schools of certain construction projects undertaken within three hundred feet of a building of such school districts or nonpublic schools.

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Bill History

2026-06-05 Senate
COMMITTED TO RULES
2026-05-21 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-05-20 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-05-19 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.1261
2026-01-07 Assembly
DIED IN ASSEMBLY
2026-01-07 Assembly
RETURNED TO SENATE
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
2025-06-10 Senate
REPASSED SENATE
2025-06-10 Senate
RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
2025-06-10 Assembly
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
2025-06-04 Senate
RECALLED FROM ASSEMBLY
2025-06-04 Assembly
RETURNED TO SENATE
2025-06-04 Senate
VOTE RECONSIDERED - RESTORED TO THIRD READING
2025-06-04 Senate
AMENDED ON THIRD READING (T) 1186A
2025-02-24 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2025-02-24 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2025-02-24 Assembly
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
2025-02-12 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2025-02-11 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2025-02-10 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.301
2025-01-08 Senate
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

Official Summary Text

Relates to providing notice to school districts and nonpublic schools located in N.Y. City of certain construction projects
Relates to providing notice to school districts and nonpublic schools located in New York city of certain construction projects; requires the New York city department of transportation to provide written notice to such school districts and nonpublic schools of certain construction projects undertaken within three hundred feet of a building of such school districts or nonpublic schools.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          1186

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  ADDABBO,  COMRIE,  MYRIE, RAMOS -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Transportation

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  highway law, in relation to providing notice to
          school districts and nonpublic schools located in a city with a  popu-
          lation of one million or more of certain construction projects

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

     1    Section 1. Section 102 of the highway law is amended by adding  a  new
     2  subdivision 19 to read as follows:
     3    19.  A.  FURNISH  WRITTEN  NOTICE  TO A SCHOOL DISTRICT OR A NONPUBLIC
     4  SCHOOL LOCATED IN A CITY WITH A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE  FOUR-
     5  TEEN DAYS PRIOR TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT UNDERTAKEN
     6  WITHIN  A  THREE  HUNDRED  FOOT  RADIUS  OF  ANY BUILDING OF SUCH SCHOOL
     7  DISTRICT OR NONPUBLIC SCHOOL THAT IS USED FOR  STUDENT  INSTRUCTION.  NO
     8  WRITTEN  NOTICE  SHALL BE REQUIRED PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION WHEN THE
     9  COMMENCEMENT OF A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT IS IN RESPONSE TO AN EMERGENCY.
    10    B. (I) THE TERM "CONSTRUCTION" AS USED IN THIS SUBDIVISION  MEANS  THE
    11  ERECTION,  BUILDING,  OR  SUBSTANTIAL  ACQUISITION,  ALTERATION,  RECON-
    12  STRUCTION, IMPROVEMENT,  EXTENSION  OR  MODIFICATION,  INCLUDING  PUBLIC
    13  UTILITY IMPROVEMENTS, OF A HIGHWAY, SIDEWALK OR APPURTENANCE THEREOF.
    14    (II)  THE  TERM  "EMERGENCY" AS USED IN THIS SUBDIVISION MEANS A SITU-
    15  ATION INVOLVING DANGER TO LIFE, SAFETY OR PROPERTY WHICH REQUIRES  IMME-
    16  DIATE  ACTION,  IS  ESSENTIAL  TO  EFFICIENT  OPERATION  OR THE ADEQUATE
    17  PROVISION OF SERVICE  BY  A  MUNICIPALITY,  SCHOOL  DISTRICT,  NONPUBLIC
    18  SCHOOL OR THE STATE, AND IS A DIRECT CONSEQUENCE OF AN ACCIDENT OR OTHER
    19  UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCE.
    20    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    21  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01915-01-5