S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1779
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 20, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. COLTON, HEVESI, WEPRIN, DAVILA, RIVERA, SANTABAR-
BARA, SEAWRIGHT, SIMON, WILLIAMS, BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to allowing the
New York state AFL-CIO to select a member to the metropolitan trans-
portation 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 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. 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 subdivision. Of the members appointed
on recommendation of the chief executive officer of a county, one such
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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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 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.
OF THESE FIVE VOTING MEMBERS, ONE SHALL BE SELECTED FROM A LIST SUBMIT-
TED TO THE GOVERNOR BY THE NEW YORK STATE AFL-CIO. Provided however,
notwithstanding the foregoing 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-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 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 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 gover-
nor 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 two non-voting and four alternate non-voting members
shall serve until January first, two thousand one. The members from the
counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam and Rockland shall cast one collec-
tive 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 to expire therewith.