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                                   8365
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             October 20, 2021
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 Introduced  by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee 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:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section
 1263 of the public authorities law, as amended by section 1 of part E of
 chapter 39 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   (1)  There is hereby created the "metropolitan transportation authori-
 ty."  The authority shall be a body corporate and politic constituting a
 public benefit corporation. The authority shall consist of  a  chairman,
 sixteen  other  voting  members,  and  two non-voting and four alternate
 non-voting members, as described in subparagraph two of  this  paragraph
 appointed  by  the  governor  by  and with the advice and consent of the
 senate. Any member appointed to a term commencing on or after June thir-
 tieth, two thousand nine shall have experience in one  or  more  of  the
 following areas: transportation, public administration, business manage-
 ment,  finance,  accounting,  law,  engineering,  land  use,  urban  and
 regional  planning,  management  of  large   capital   projects,   labor
 relations,  or have experience in some other area of activity central to
 the mission of the authority.  EITHER THE CHAIRMAN OR ONE OF  THE  OTHER
 SIXTEEN  VOTING  MEMBERS APPOINTED TO A TERM COMMENCING ON OR AFTER JUNE
 THIRTIETH, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-TWO SHALL BE A PERSON WITH A  DISABILITY.
 FOR  THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBPARAGRAPH, "PERSON WITH A DISABILITY" MEANS
 ANY PERSON WITH A DISABILITY AS THAT  TERM  IS  DEFINED  IN  SUBDIVISION
 TWENTY-ONE  OF SECTION TWO HUNDRED NINETY-TWO OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW. Four
 of the sixteen voting members other than the chairman shall be appointed
 on the written recommendation of the mayor of the city of New York;  and
 each  of  seven  other  voting  members other than the chairman shall be
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 appointed after selection from a written list of  three  recommendations
 from  the  chief executive officer of the county in which the particular
 member is required to reside pursuant to the provisions of this subdivi-
 sion.  Of the members appointed on recommendation of the chief executive
 officer of a county, one such member shall be, at the time  of  appoint-
 ment,  a  resident of the county of Nassau, one a resident of the county
 of Suffolk, one a resident of the county of Westchester, one a  resident
 of the county of Dutchess, one a resident of the county of Orange, one a
 resident  of  the  county  of Putnam and one a resident of the county of
 Rockland, provided that the term of any member who is a  resident  of  a
 county  that has withdrawn from the metropolitan commuter transportation
 district pursuant to section twelve hundred seventy-nine-b of this title
 shall terminate upon the effective date of such county's withdrawal from
 such district. Of the five voting  members,  other  than  the  chairman,
 appointed  by the governor without recommendation from any other person,
 three shall be, at the time of appointment, residents of the city of New
 York and two shall be, at the time of  appointment,  residents  of  such
 city or of any of the aforementioned counties in the metropolitan commu-
 ter transportation district. Provided however, notwithstanding the fore-
 going residency requirement, one of the five voting members appointed by
 the  governor  without  recommendation from any other person, other than
 the chairman, may be the director of the New York state division of  the
 budget, and provided further that, in the event of such appointment, the
 budget  director's  membership in the authority shall be deemed ex-offi-
 cio. The chairman and each of the members shall be appointed for a  term
 of  six years, provided however, that the chairman first appointed shall
 serve for a term ending June  thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred  eighty-one,
 provided that thirty days after the effective date of the chapter of the
 laws  of  two thousand nine which amended this subparagraph, the term of
 the chairman shall expire; provided, further,  that  such  chairman  may
 continue to discharge the duties of his or her office until the position
 of chairman is filled by appointment by the governor upon the advice and
 consent  of the senate and the term of such new chairman shall terminate
 June thirtieth, two thousand fifteen. The sixteen  other  members  first
 appointed  shall  serve  for  the  following terms: The members from the
 counties of Nassau and Westchester shall each serve for  a  term  ending
 June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty-five; the members from the coun-
 ty  of  Suffolk  and  from  the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam and
 Rockland shall each serve for a term  ending  June  thirtieth,  nineteen
 hundred  ninety-two;  two  of the members appointed on recommendation of
 the mayor of the city of New York shall each serve  for  a  term  ending
 June  thirtieth,  nineteen hundred eighty-four and, two shall each serve
 for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred  eighty-one;  two  of
 the  members appointed by the governor without the recommendation of any
 other person shall each serve for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen
 hundred eighty-two, two shall each serve for a term ending June  thirti-
 eth,  nineteen hundred eighty and one shall serve for a term ending June
 thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty-five. The  two  non-voting  and  four
 alternate  non-voting members shall serve until January first, two thou-
 sand one. The members from the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam  and
 Rockland shall cast one collective vote.
   §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
 the amendments to subparagraph 1 of paragraph (a) of  subdivision  1  of
 section  1263  of the public authorities law made by section one of this
 act shall not affect the expiration  of  such  paragraph  and  shall  be
 deemed expired therewith.