STATE OF NEW YORK
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4463
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. COLTON, HEVESI, WEPRIN, DAVILA, JAFFEE, RIVERA,
MOSLEY, SANTABARBARA, D'URSO, SEAWRIGHT, SIMON, MONTESANO, WILLIAMS,
ORTIZ, BICHOTTE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DE LA ROSA -- 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:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section
2 1263 of the public authorities law, as amended by section 3 of part H of
3 chapter 25 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
4 (1) There is hereby created the "metropolitan transportation authori-
5 ty." The authority shall be a body corporate and politic constituting a
6 public benefit corporation. The authority shall consist of a chairman,
7 sixteen other voting members, and two non-voting and four alternate
8 non-voting members, as described in subparagraph two of this paragraph
9 appointed by the governor by and with the advice and consent of the
10 senate. Any member appointed to a term commencing on or after June thir-
11 tieth, two thousand nine shall have experience in one or more of the
12 following areas: transportation, public administration, business manage-
13 ment, finance, accounting, law, engineering, land use, urban and
14 regional planning, management of large capital projects, labor
15 relations, or have experience in some other area of activity central to
16 the mission of the authority. Four of the sixteen voting members other
17 than the chairman shall be appointed on the written recommendation of
18 the mayor of the city of New York; and each of seven other voting
19 members other than the chairman shall be appointed after selection from
20 a written list of three recommendations from the chief executive officer
21 of the county in which the particular member is required to reside
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03592-01-9
A. 4463 2
1 pursuant to the provisions of this subdivision. Of the members appointed
2 on recommendation of the chief executive officer of a county, one such
3 member shall be, at the time of appointment, a resident of the county of
4 Nassau, one a resident of the county of Suffolk, one a resident of the
5 county of Westchester, one a resident of the county of Dutchess, one a
6 resident of the county of Orange, one a resident of the county of Putnam
7 and one a resident of the county of Rockland, provided that the term of
8 any member who is a resident of a county that has withdrawn from the
9 metropolitan commuter transportation district pursuant to section twelve
10 hundred seventy-nine-b of this article shall terminate upon the effec-
11 tive date of such county's withdrawal from such district. Of the five
12 voting members, other than the chairman, appointed by the governor with-
13 out recommendation from any other person, three shall be, at the time of
14 appointment, residents of the city of New York and two shall be, at the
15 time of appointment, residents of such city or of any of the aforemen-
16 tioned counties in the metropolitan commuter transportation district. Of
17 these five voting members, one shall be selected from a list submitted
18 to the governor by the New York state AFL-CIO. The chairman and each of
19 the members shall be appointed for a term of six years, provided howev-
20 er, that the chairman first appointed shall serve for a term ending June
21 thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty-one, provided that thirty days after
22 the effective date of [the] chapter twenty-five of the laws of two thou-
23 sand nine [which amended this subparagraph], the term of the chairman
24 shall expire; provided, further, that such chairman may continue to
25 discharge the duties of his or her office until the position of chairman
26 is filled by appointment by the governor upon the advice and consent of
27 the senate and the term of such new chairman shall terminate June thir-
28 tieth, two thousand fifteen. The sixteen other members first appointed
29 shall serve for the following terms: The members from the counties of
30 Nassau and Westchester shall each serve for a term ending June thirti-
31 eth, nineteen hundred eighty-five; the members from the county of
32 Suffolk and from the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam and Rockland
33 shall each serve for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred
34 ninety-two; two of the members appointed on recommendation of the mayor
35 of the city of New York shall each serve for a term ending June thirti-
36 eth, nineteen hundred eighty-four and, two shall each serve for a term
37 ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty-one; two of the members
38 appointed by the governor without the recommendation of any other person
39 shall each serve for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred
40 eighty-two, two shall each serve for a term ending June thirtieth, nine-
41 teen hundred eighty and one shall serve for a term ending June thirti-
42 eth, nineteen hundred eighty-five. The two non-voting and four alternate
43 non-voting members shall serve until January first, two thousand one.
44 The members from the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam and Rockland
45 shall cast one collective vote.
46 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
47 the amendments to subparagraph 1 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of
48 section 1263 of the public authorities law made by section one of this
49 act shall not affect the expiration of such paragraph and shall be
50 deemed to expire therewith.