Bill Text: NY A02498 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes terms of members of the board of the thruway authority; staggers terms; provides for termination upon inauguration of a new governor unless reappointed.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - enacting clause stricken [A02498 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02498-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2498
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 23, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to  establishing
          the  terms  of  the members of the board of the New York state thruway
          authority
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 352 of the public authorities law,
     2  as  amended  by  chapter  766 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. (a) A board to be known as "New York state  thruway  authority"  is
     5  hereby created. Such board shall be a body corporate and politic consti-
     6  tuting a public corporation. It shall consist of seven members appointed
     7  by  the  governor by and with the advice and consent of the senate. [The
     8  members first appointed shall serve for terms ending three, six and nine
     9  years, respectively from January first next  succeeding  their  appoint-
    10  ment.  Provided,  however,  that two board members first appointed on or
    11  after the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand five
    12  which amended this subdivision shall serve an initial term of two years;
    13  provided further that two other board  members  first  appointed  on  or
    14  after the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand five
    15  which  amended  this  subdivision  shall  serve an initial term of three
    16  years. Their successors shall be  appointed  for  terms  of  nine  years
    17  each.]  A  member to be designated as chairman in his or her appointment
    18  as a member shall be chairman of such board until his  or  her  term  as
    19  member  expires.  The chairman and the other members shall serve without
    20  salary or other compensation, but shall be entitled to reimbursement for
    21  their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their
    22  official duties.
    23    (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or  the  provisions  of
    24  any  appointment by a governor, the terms of all members serving as such
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00959-01-9
        A. 2498                             2
     1  on March thirty-first, two thousand nineteen, or on the  effective  date
     2  of  this paragraph, whichever date is later, shall immediately terminate
     3  except that such members shall continue to serve until their  successors
     4  are appointed and have qualified.
     5    (c)  Two  members  of the board appointed on or after April first, two
     6  thousand nineteen, shall be appointed to terms of three years; two other
     7  members of the board shall be appointed to  terms  of  four  years;  and
     8  three  members  of  the board shall be appointed to terms of five years,
     9  provided, however, that such members shall continue to serve  after  the
    10  end  of their terms until their successors are appointed and have quali-
    11  fied, and provided further that notwithstanding the term  to  which  any
    12  such  member  shall  have  been  appointed, the term of each member then
    13  serving shall terminate on the sixtieth day after the inauguration of  a
    14  governor other than the one that originally appointed such member unless
    15  such  new  governor  shall  order  the  continuation of the term of such
    16  member. Such a continuation of the term of a member  shall  not  require
    17  confirmation by the senate.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.