Bill Text: NY A01779 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows the New York state AFL-CIO to select one of the five voting members to the metropolitan transportation authority.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A01779 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01779-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1779

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 20, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. COLTON, HEVESI, WEPRIN, DAVILA, RIVERA, SANTABAR-
          BARA,  SEAWRIGHT,  SIMON, WILLIAMS, BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to allowing  the
          New  York  state AFL-CIO to select a member to the metropolitan trans-
          portation authority

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section
     2  1263 of the public authorities law, as amended by section 1 of part E of
     3  chapter 39 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (1)  There is hereby created the "metropolitan transportation authori-
     5  ty."  The authority shall be a body corporate and politic constituting a
     6  public benefit corporation. The authority shall consist of  a  chairman,
     7  sixteen  other  voting  members,  and  two non-voting and four alternate
     8  non-voting members, as described in subparagraph two of  this  paragraph
     9  appointed  by  the  governor  by  and with the advice and consent of the
    10  senate. Any member appointed to a term commencing on or after June thir-
    11  tieth, two thousand nine shall have experience in one  or  more  of  the
    12  following areas: transportation, public administration, business manage-
    13  ment,  finance,  accounting,  law,  engineering,  land  use,  urban  and
    14  regional  planning,  management  of  large   capital   projects,   labor
    15  relations,  or have experience in some other area of activity central to
    16  the mission of the authority. Four of the sixteen voting  members  other
    17  than  the  chairman  shall be appointed on the written recommendation of
    18  the mayor of the city of New  York;  and  each  of  seven  other  voting
    19  members  other than the chairman shall be appointed after selection from
    20  a written list of three recommendations from the chief executive officer
    21  of the county in which the  particular  member  is  required  to  reside
    22  pursuant to the provisions of this subdivision. Of the members appointed
    23  on  recommendation  of the chief executive officer of a county, one such

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02841-01-3
        A. 1779                             2

     1  member shall be, at the time of appointment, a resident of the county of
     2  Nassau, one a resident of the county of Suffolk, one a resident  of  the
     3  county  of  Westchester, one a resident of the county of Dutchess, one a
     4  resident of the county of Orange, one a resident of the county of Putnam
     5  and  one a resident of the county of Rockland, provided that the term of
     6  any member who is a resident of a county that  has  withdrawn  from  the
     7  metropolitan commuter transportation district pursuant to section twelve
     8  hundred  seventy-nine-b of this title shall terminate upon the effective
     9  date of such county's withdrawal from such district. Of the five  voting
    10  members,  other  than  the  chairman,  appointed by the governor without
    11  recommendation from any other person, three shall be,  at  the  time  of
    12  appointment,  residents of the city of New York and two shall be, at the
    13  time of appointment, residents of such city or of any of  the  aforemen-
    14  tioned  counties  in  the metropolitan commuter transportation district.
    15  Of these five voting members, one shall be selected from a list  submit-
    16  ted  to  the  governor  by the New York state AFL-CIO. Provided however,
    17  notwithstanding the foregoing residency requirement,  one  of  the  five
    18  voting members appointed by the governor without recommendation from any
    19  other  person,  other  than the chairman, may be the director of the New
    20  York state division of the budget, and provided  further  that,  in  the
    21  event  of  such  appointment,  the  budget  director's membership in the
    22  authority shall be deemed ex-officio.  The  chairman  and  each  of  the
    23  members  shall  be  appointed for a term of six years, provided however,
    24  that the chairman first appointed shall serve for  a  term  ending  June
    25  thirtieth,  nineteen hundred eighty-one, provided that thirty days after
    26  the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand nine which
    27  amended this subparagraph,  the  term  of  the  chairman  shall  expire;
    28  provided,  further,  that  such  chairman  may continue to discharge the
    29  duties of his or her office until the position of chairman is filled  by
    30  appointment  by  the  governor upon the advice and consent of the senate
    31  and the term of such new chairman shall terminate  June  thirtieth,  two
    32  thousand  fifteen. The sixteen other members first appointed shall serve
    33  for the following terms: The members from the  counties  of  Nassau  and
    34  Westchester  shall each serve for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen
    35  hundred eighty-five; the members from the county of Suffolk and from the
    36  counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam and Rockland shall each serve for a
    37  term ending June thirtieth, nineteen  hundred  ninety-two;  two  of  the
    38  members appointed on recommendation of the mayor of the city of New York
    39  shall  each  serve  for  a  term ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred
    40  eighty-four and, two shall each serve for a term ending June  thirtieth,
    41  nineteen  hundred eighty-one; two of the members appointed by the gover-
    42  nor without the recommendation of any other person shall each serve  for
    43  a  term  ending  June  thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty-two, two shall
    44  each serve for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty and
    45  one shall serve for a  term  ending  June  thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred
    46  eighty-five.  The  two  non-voting and four alternate non-voting members
    47  shall serve until January first, two thousand one. The members from  the
    48  counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam and Rockland shall cast one collec-
    49  tive vote.
    50    §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
    51  the amendments to subparagraph 1 of paragraph (a) of  subdivision  1  of
    52  section  1263  of the public authorities law made by section one of this
    53  act shall not affect the expiration  of  such  paragraph  and  shall  be
    54  deemed to expire therewith.