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                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2017
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities
 
 AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
   relation  to  the composition of the board of trustees of the New York
   city employees' retirement system
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  5  of  subdivision  b of section 13-103 of the
 administrative code of the city of  New  York  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   5.  (a) [Three] FOUR employee representatives, who shall each be enti-
 tled to cast one vote. The  chief  executive  officer  of  each  of  the
 [three]  FOUR  employee organizations designated as [herein] provided IN
 THIS SUBDIVISION shall be one of such representatives.
   (b) On or before July first of the year  in  which  this  subparagraph
 shall take effect, the director of labor relations of the city (or other
 officer  performing  the  same or similar functions under another title)
 shall, by instrument in writing filed in his or her office and with  the
 board,  designate  (I) the three employee organizations which represent,
 for the purposes of collective bargaining on pension matters, the  larg-
 est  number  of  employees who are members of the retirement system, AND
 (II) THE EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATION WHICH REPRESENTS,  FOR  THE  PURPOSES  OF
 COLLECTIVE   BARGAINING  ON  PENSION  MATTERS,  THE  LARGEST  NUMBER  OF
 UNIFORMED EMPLOYEES WHO ARE  MEMBERS  OF  THE  RETIREMENT  SYSTEM.  Such
 designation  shall  be reviewed annually by such director or other offi-
 cer, and if such review discloses  a  change  in  the  standing  of  the
 employee  organizations  concerned,  such designation shall thereupon be
 revised by him or her to specify the  [three]  FOUR  such  organizations
 having  the  leading representational status as [hereinabove] prescribed
 IN THIS SUBPARAGRAPH.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04236-01-7

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   (c) Any such employee representative  may,  by  written  authorization
 filed  with the board, designate one or more persons to act in the place
 of such member on such board in the event of the absence of such member,
 provided, however, that the by-laws or constitution of the  organization
 of  which  he  or  she  is chief executive officer authorize such desig-
 nation.
   (d) Each act of such board shall be by  a  resolution  adopted  by  at
 least  [three]  FOUR and [three-fifths] ONE-FIFTH votes. The concurrence
 of one  employee  representative  and  one  non-employee  representative
 member  or members entitled to one vote shall be necessary for an act of
 such board. A quorum of such board shall consist of members entitled  to
 cast at least [three] FOUR and [three-fifths] ONE-FIFTH votes.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.