Assembly Bill A1932

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   1932
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2025
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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 chapter 68 of the laws
 of 2024, 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  chair-
 person, sixteen other voting members, and two non-voting and four alter-
 nate  non-voting members, as described in subparagraph two of this para-
 graph 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
 thirtieth, 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 chairperson 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 chairperson 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,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 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 resi-
 dent 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 with-
 drawn 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 chairperson,  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  transporta-
 tion district.  OF THESE FIVE VOTING MEMBERS, ONE SHALL BE SELECTED FROM
 A  LIST SUBMITTED   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 recom-
 mendation from any other person, other than the chairperson, 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.  Provided
 further, one of the twelve voting members, other than  the  chairperson,
 appointed by the governor without recommendation by any other person, or
 on  the  recommendation  of the mayor of the city of New York, or of the
 chief executive officer of  the  counties  of  Westchester,  Nassau,  or
 Suffolk  shall  be  a transit dependent individual. A "transit dependent
 individual" shall mean an individual who is limited to public transit as
 their primary mode of transportation because the individual has a perma-
 nent disability, provided that any local or statewide  transit  advocacy
 organization  may recommend one or more transit dependent individuals to
 be considered for appointment pursuant to this section. The  chairperson
 and  each  of  the  members  shall be appointed for a term of six years,
 provided however, that the chairperson 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  chair-
 person  shall  expire;  provided,  further,  that  such  chairperson may
 continue to discharge the duties  of  [his  or  her]  THE  CHAIRPERSON'S
 office until the position of chairperson is filled by appointment by the
 governor  upon the advice and consent of the senate and the term of such
 new chairperson 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,  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-
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 five. The two non-voting and four  alternate  non-voting  members  shall
 serve  until January first, two thousand one. The members from the coun-
 ties 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 to expire therewith.