Bill Text: NY A04035 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows the New York state AFL-CIO to select one of the five voting members to the metropolitan transportation authority.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A04035 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A04035-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4035 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 1, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. COLTON, HEVESI, WEPRIN, DAVILA, J. RIVERA, SANTA- BARBARA, SEAWRIGHT, SIMON, MONTESANO, WILLIAMS, BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DE LA ROSA -- 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 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06011-01-1A. 4035 2 1 on recommendation of the chief executive officer of a county, one such 2 member shall be, at the time of appointment, a resident of the county of 3 Nassau, one a resident of the county of Suffolk, one a resident of the 4 county of Westchester, one a resident of the county of Dutchess, one a 5 resident of the county of Orange, one a resident of the county of Putnam 6 and one a resident of the county of Rockland, provided that the term of 7 any member who is a resident of a county that has withdrawn from the 8 metropolitan commuter transportation district pursuant to section twelve 9 hundred seventy-nine-b of this title shall terminate upon the effective 10 date of such county's withdrawal from such district. Of the five voting 11 members, other than the chairman, appointed by the governor without 12 recommendation from any other person, three shall be, at the time of 13 appointment, residents of the city of New York and two shall be, at the 14 time of appointment, residents of such city or of any of the aforemen- 15 tioned counties in the metropolitan commuter transportation district. 16 Of these five voting members, one shall be selected from a list submit- 17 ted to the governor by the New York state AFL-CIO. Provided however, 18 notwithstanding the foregoing residency requirement, one of the five 19 voting members appointed by the governor without recommendation from any 20 other person, other than the chairman, may be the director of the New 21 York state division of the budget, and provided further that, in the 22 event of such appointment, the budget director's membership in the 23 authority shall be deemed ex-officio. The chairman and each of the 24 members shall be appointed for a term of six years, provided however, 25 that the chairman first appointed shall serve for a term ending June 26 thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty-one, provided that thirty days after 27 the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand nine which 28 amended this subparagraph, the term of the chairman shall expire; 29 provided, further, that such chairman may continue to discharge the 30 duties of his or her office until the position of chairman is filled by 31 appointment by the governor upon the advice and consent of the senate 32 and the term of such new chairman shall terminate June thirtieth, two 33 thousand fifteen. The sixteen other members first appointed shall serve 34 for the following terms: The members from the counties of Nassau and 35 Westchester shall each serve for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen 36 hundred eighty-five; the members from the county of Suffolk and from the 37 counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam and Rockland shall each serve for a 38 term ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred ninety-two; two of the 39 members appointed on recommendation of the mayor of the city of New York 40 shall each serve for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred 41 eighty-four and, two shall each serve for a term ending June thirtieth, 42 nineteen hundred eighty-one; two of the members appointed by the gover- 43 nor without the recommendation of any other person shall each serve for 44 a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty-two, two shall 45 each serve for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty and 46 one shall serve for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred 47 eighty-five. The two non-voting and four alternate non-voting members 48 shall serve until January first, two thousand one. The members from the 49 counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam and Rockland shall cast one collec- 50 tive vote. 51 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 52 the amendments to subparagraph 1 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of 53 section 1263 of the public authorities law made by section one of this 54 act shall not affect the expiration of such paragraph and shall be 55 deemed to expire therewith.