NY State Senate Bill 2021-S520

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2021-S520 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Transportation
Law Section:: Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §1263, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:: S7585

2021-S520 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Adds five new members to the metropolitan transportation authority to be appointed by each of the borough presidents.

2021-S520 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S520

SPONSOR: GOUNARDES
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the public authorities law, in relation to the composi-
tion of the metropolitan transportation authority

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

To amend the composition of the metropolitan transportation authority
board.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 and 2 amends the number of voting members of the board from 16
to 21. Additionally, the sections are amended to include one voting
member appointed by each of the five borough presidents in the city of
New York. Each such member is required to be a resident of the borough
which they are appointed to represent and adds the date on which each of
the five additional members' terms will end.

Section 3 provides the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Currently, the MTA board consists of a chairman and 16 other voting
members. Four appointees are selected upon recommendation from the mayor
of the city of New York; seven appointees are selected by the chief
executive officer of the counties of Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester,
Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, and Rockland; and five appointees are selected
by the governor. Of the five selected by the governor, only three
appointees are required to be residents of the city of New York. The
number of members from the city of New York do not equally represent the
populations of the five boroughs that make up the city and the heart of
the MTA. This bill will provide more fair representation by requiring
that the MTA include a resident of each borough, appointed by the
borough president, as a voting member.  The proposed legislation would
create a stronger partnership between the state and city when it comes
to MTA decisions, by appointing one member from each borough to the MTA
board.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2020: S7585 - Referred to Transportation

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

TBD

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediate

2021-S520 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    520
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- 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 composi-
   tion of the metropolitan transportation authority

   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]  TWENTY-ONE  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; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THERE SHALL BE ONE VOTING  MEMBER
 APPOINTED  BY  EACH  OF  THE  FIVE BOROUGH PRESIDENTS IN THE CITY OF NEW
 YORK. Any member appointed to a term commencing on or after June thirti-
 eth, 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. [Four] THERE SHALL BE  ONE  VOTING  MEMBER
 APPOINTED  BY  THE  BOROUGH PRESIDENT OF STATEN ISLAND, WHO SHALL BE, AT
 THE TIME OF APPOINTMENT, A RESIDENT OF STATEN ISLAND. THERE SHALL BE ONE
 VOTING MEMBER APPOINTED BY THE BOROUGH PRESIDENT OF MANHATTAN, WHO SHALL
 BE, AT THE TIME OF APPOINTMENT, A RESIDENT OF MANHATTAN. THERE SHALL  BE
 ONE  VOTING  MEMBER APPOINTED BY THE BOROUGH PRESIDENT OF THE BRONX, WHO
 SHALL BE, AT THE TIME OF APPOINTMENT, A RESIDENT  OF  THE  BRONX.  THERE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03163-01-1

 S. 520                              2
 
 SHALL  BE ONE VOTING MEMBER APPOINTED BY THE BOROUGH PRESIDENT OF BROOK-
 LYN, WHO SHALL BE, AT THE TIME OF APPOINTMENT, A RESIDENT  OF  BROOKLYN.
 THERE  SHALL  BE ONE VOTING MEMBER APPOINTED BY THE BOROUGH PRESIDENT OF
 QUEENS,  WHO SHALL BE, AT THE TIME OF APPOINTMENT, A RESIDENT OF QUEENS.
 TWO of the [sixteen] TWENTY-ONE 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 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  subdivision. Of the members appointed on recommendation of the
 chief executive officer of a county, one such member shall  be,  at  the
 time  of appointment, 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] SEVEN 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 aforemen-
 tioned counties in the metropolitan  commuter  transportation  district.
 Provided  however,  notwithstanding the foregoing residency requirement,
 one of the [five] SEVEN 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-officio. 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 TWENTY-FIVE of the laws of two
 thousand nine [which amended this subparagraph], the term of the  chair-
 man  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 thir-
 tieth, two thousand fifteen.  The  [sixteen]  TWENTY-ONE  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 county 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 MEMBERS  APPOINTED  BY  THE

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 BOROUGH  PRESIDENTS  OF  THE FIVE BOROUGHS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK SHALL
 SERVE FOR A TERM ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, TWO THOUSAND  TWENTY-SEVEN.  The
 two  non-voting  and four alternate non-voting members shall serve until
 January first, two thousand one. The members from the counties of Dutch-
 ess, Orange, Putnam and Rockland shall cast one collective vote.
   §  2.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 1 of section 1263 of the public
 authorities law, as amended by section 2 of part E of chapter 39 of  the
 laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   (a)  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
 and [sixteen] TWENTY-ONE other members appointed by the governor by  and
 with the advice and consent of the senate; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THERE
 SHALL  BE ONE VOTING MEMBER APPOINTED BY EACH OF THE FIVE BOROUGH PRESI-
 DENTS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. Any member appointed to a term commencing
 on or after June thirtieth, two thousand nine shall have  experience  in
 one or more of the following areas of expertise:  transportation, public
 administration, business management, finance, accounting, law, engineer-
 ing,  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. [Four] THERE SHALL BE
 ONE VOTING MEMBER APPOINTED BY THE BOROUGH PRESIDENT OF  STATEN  ISLAND,
 WHO  SHALL  BE, AT THE TIME OF APPOINTMENT, A RESIDENT OF STATEN ISLAND.
 THERE SHALL BE ONE VOTING MEMBER APPOINTED BY THE BOROUGH  PRESIDENT  OF
 MANHATTAN,  WHO  SHALL  BE,  AT  THE  TIME OF APPOINTMENT, A RESIDENT OF
 MANHATTAN. THERE SHALL BE ONE VOTING MEMBER  APPOINTED  BY  THE  BOROUGH
 PRESIDENT  OF  THE  BRONX,  WHO  SHALL BE, AT THE TIME OF APPOINTMENT, A
 RESIDENT OF THE BRONX. THERE SHALL BE ONE VOTING MEMBER APPOINTED BY THE
 BOROUGH PRESIDENT OF BROOKLYN, WHO SHALL BE, AT THE TIME OF APPOINTMENT,
 A RESIDENT OF BROOKLYN. THERE SHALL BE ONE VOTING  MEMBER  APPOINTED  BY
 THE  BOROUGH  PRESIDENT OF QUEENS, WHO SHALL BE, AT THE TIME OF APPOINT-
 MENT, A RESIDENT OF QUEENS. TWO  of  the  [sixteen]  TWENTY-ONE  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 members
 other than the chairman shall be appointed after selection from a  writ-
 ten  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  subdivision.  Of  the  members  appointed  on
 recommendation  of  the  chief  executive  officer of a county, one such
 member shall be, at the time of appointment, a resident of the county of
 Nassau; one a resident of the county of Suffolk; one a resident  of  the
 county of Westchester; and 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] SEVEN 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  commuter  transportation
 district.  Provided  however,  notwithstanding  the  foregoing residency
 requirement, one of the [five] SEVEN voting  members  appointed  by  the
 governor  without  recommendation  from any other person, other than the

 S. 520                              4
 
 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
 TWENTY-FIVE  of  the laws of two thousand nine [which amended this para-
 graph], the term of the chairman shall expire; provided,  further,  that
 such  chairman  may continue to discharge the duties of his 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]
 TWENTY-ONE  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 county 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,  nine-
 teen  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 thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty and  one
 shall  serve  for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty-
 five; THE MEMBERS APPOINTED  BY  THE  BOROUGH  PRESIDENTS  OF  THE  FIVE
 BOROUGHS  OF  THE  CITY  OF  NEW YORK SHALL SERVE FOR A TERM ENDING JUNE
 THIRTIETH, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SEVEN.  The members from the counties  of
 Dutchess, Orange, Putnam and Rockland shall cast one collective vote.
   §  3. This act shall take effect immediately, provided that the amend-
 ments to paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 1263  of  the  public
 authorities  law made by section one of this act shall be subject to the
 expiration and reversion of such paragraph  pursuant  to  section  3  of
 chapter  549  of  the  laws of 1994, as amended, when upon such date the
 provisions of section two of this act shall take effect.

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Senate Bill S520

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee

2021-S520 (ACTIVE) - Details

2021-S520 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2021-S520 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S520 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee

2021-S520 (ACTIVE) - Details

2021-S520 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2021-S520 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S520 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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