Bill Text: NY A04504 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Requires one voting member of the metropolitan transportation authority be a transit dependent individual.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-11-20 - approval memo.32 [A04504 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A04504-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Requires one voting member of the metropolitan transportation authority be a transit dependent individual.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-11-20 - approval memo.32 [A04504 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A04504-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4504 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 16, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN, CRUZ, SEAWRIGHT, GIBBS, COOK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring one voting member of the metropolitan transportation authority be a person with a disability 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. Either the chairman or one of the other 17 sixteen voting members appointed to a term commencing on or after June 18 thirtieth, two thousand twenty-four shall be a person with a disability. 19 For the purposes of this subparagraph, "person with a disability" means 20 any person with a disability as that term is defined in subdivision 21 twenty-one of section two hundred ninety-two of the executive law. Four 22 of the sixteen voting members other than the chairman shall be appointed 23 on the written recommendation of the mayor of the city of New York; and 24 each of seven other voting members other than the chairman shall be 25 appointed after selection from a written list of three recommendations 26 from the chief executive officer of the county in which the particular EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05301-01-3A. 4504 2 1 member is required to reside pursuant to the provisions of this subdivi- 2 sion. Of the members appointed on recommendation of the chief executive 3 officer of a county, one such member shall be, at the time of appoint- 4 ment, a resident of the county of Nassau, one a resident of the county 5 of Suffolk, one a resident of the county of Westchester, one a resident 6 of the county of Dutchess, one a resident of the county of Orange, one a 7 resident of the county of Putnam and one a resident of the county of 8 Rockland, provided that the term of any member who is a resident of a 9 county that has withdrawn from the metropolitan commuter transportation 10 district pursuant to section twelve hundred seventy-nine-b of this title 11 shall terminate upon the effective date of such county's withdrawal from 12 such district. Of the five voting members, other than the chairman, 13 appointed by the governor without recommendation from any other person, 14 three shall be, at the time of appointment, residents of the city of New 15 York and two shall be, at the time of appointment, residents of such 16 city or of any of the aforementioned counties in the metropolitan commu- 17 ter transportation district. Provided however, notwithstanding the fore- 18 going residency requirement, one of the five voting members appointed by 19 the governor without recommendation from any other person, other than 20 the chairman, may be the director of the New York state division of the 21 budget, and provided further that, in the event of such appointment, the 22 budget director's membership in the authority shall be deemed ex-offi- 23 cio. The chairman and each of the members shall be appointed for a term 24 of six years, provided however, that the chairman first appointed shall 25 serve for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty-one, 26 provided that thirty days after the effective date of the chapter of the 27 laws of two thousand nine which amended this subparagraph, the term of 28 the chairman shall expire; provided, further, that such chairman may 29 continue to discharge the duties of his or her office until the position 30 of chairman is filled by appointment by the governor upon the advice and 31 consent of the senate and the term of such new chairman shall terminate 32 June thirtieth, two thousand fifteen. The sixteen other members first 33 appointed shall serve for the following terms: The members from the 34 counties of Nassau and Westchester shall each serve for a term ending 35 June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty-five; the members from the coun- 36 ty of Suffolk and from the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam and 37 Rockland shall each serve for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen 38 hundred ninety-two; two of the members appointed on recommendation of 39 the mayor of the city of New York shall each serve for a term ending 40 June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty-four and, two shall each serve 41 for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty-one; two of 42 the members appointed by the governor without the recommendation of any 43 other person shall each serve for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen 44 hundred eighty-two, two shall each serve for a term ending June thirti- 45 eth, nineteen hundred eighty and one shall serve for a term ending June 46 thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty-five. The two non-voting and four 47 alternate non-voting members shall serve until January first, two thou- 48 sand one. The members from the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam and 49 Rockland shall cast one collective 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 expired therewith.
