Senate Bill S8030

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   8030
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 20, 2022
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 Introduced  by  Sen. PERSAUD -- 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 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
 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-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 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.