STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8833 IN SENATE March 19, 2024 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to the residence of a certain non-voting member of the metropolitan transportation authority The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subparagraph 2 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 2 1263 of the public authorities law, as amended by chapter 549 of the 3 laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows: 4 (2) There shall be two non-voting members and four alternate non-vot- 5 ing members of the authority, as referred to in subparagraph one of this 6 paragraph. 7 The first non-voting member shall be a regular mass transit user of 8 the facilities of the authority and be recommended to the governor by 9 the New York city transit authority advisory council. The first alter- 10 nate non-voting member shall be a regular mass transit user of the 11 facilities of the authority and be recommended to the governor by the 12 Metro-North commuter council. The second alternate non-voting member 13 shall be a regular mass transit user of the facilities of the authority 14 and be recommended to the governor by the Long Island Rail Road 15 commuter's council. 16 The second non-voting member shall be recommended to the governor by 17 the labor organization representing the majority of employees of the 18 Long Island Rail Road. The third alternate non-voting member shall be 19 recommended to the governor by the labor organization representing the 20 majority of employees of the New York city transit authority. The fourth 21 alternate non-voting member shall be recommended to the governor by the 22 labor organization representing the majority of employees of the Metro- 23 North Commuter Railroad Company. Notwithstanding any other provision of 24 law, the alternate non-voting member recommended by the labor organiza- 25 tion representing the majority of employees of the Metro-North Commuter 26 Railroad Company may be a resident of any state in which the Metro-North 27 Commuter Railroad Company operates. The chairman of the authority, at EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14382-01-4S. 8833 2 1 his direction, may exclude such non-voting member or alternate non-vot- 2 ing member from attending any portion of a meeting of the authority or 3 of any committee established pursuant to paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 four of this section held for the purpose of discussing negotiations 5 with labor organizations. 6 The non-voting member and the two alternate non-voting members repres- 7 enting the New York York city transit authority advisory council, the 8 Metro-North commuter council, and the Long Island Rail Road commuter's 9 council shall serve eighteen month rotating terms, after which time an 10 alternate non-voting member shall become the non-voting member and the 11 rotation shall continue until each alternate member has served at least 12 one eighteen month term as a non-voting member. The other non-voting 13 member and alternate non-voting members representing the New York city 14 transit authority, Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company, and the Long 15 Island Rail Road labor organizations shall serve eighteen month rotating 16 terms, after which time an alternate non-voting member shall become the 17 non-voting member and the rotation shall continue until each alternate 18 member has served at least one eighteen month term as a non-voting 19 member. The transit authority and the commuter railroads shall not be 20 represented concurrently by the two non-voting members during any such 21 eighteen month period. 22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 23 the amendments to subparagraph 2 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of 24 section 1263 of the public authorities law made by section one of this 25 act shall not affect the expiration of such paragraph and shall be 26 deemed expired therewith.