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A00201 Summary:

A00201 Actions:

A00201 Committee Votes:

Committee:CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS   Chair:Dinowitz      
DATE:02/07/2017AYE/NAY:20/0  Action: Favorable         
Dinowitz
Aye
Lawrence
Excused
Cook
Aye
Lopez
Aye
Galef
Aye
Blankenbush
Aye
Jenne
Aye
Friend
Aye
Rodriguez
Excused
Malliotakis
Aye
Abinanti
Aye
Palmesano
Aye
Quart
Aye
Montesano
Aye
Otis
Excused
Rozic
Aye
Kim
Excused
Buchwald
Aye
Moya
Aye
Seawright
Aye
Dilan
Aye
Simotas
Excused
Richardson
Aye
De La Rosa
Aye
Pheffer Amato
Aye
Vanel
Excused

A00201 Floor Votes:

A00201 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                           201
 
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 4, 2017
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to the  composi-
          tion of the Rochester-Genesee regional transportation authority

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1299-dd of the public  authorities
     2  law,  as  amended by chapter 388 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read
     3  as follows:
     4    1. (a) There is hereby created the Rochester-Genesee  regional  trans-
     5  portation authority. The authority shall be a body corporate and politic
     6  constituting  a public benefit corporation. It shall consist of at least
     7  one member from each county that elects to  join  the  authority  except
     8  that  the  county of Monroe shall have seven members of whom three shall
     9  be appointed from the city of Rochester and four at large from the coun-
    10  ty of Monroe and shall have [one] two  non-voting  [member]  members  as
    11  described in [paragraph] paragraphs (b) and (c) of this subdivision. The
    12  members  shall  be  appointed by the governor by and with the advice and
    13  consent of the senate. The governor shall make initial  appointments  to
    14  the  authority in such number and from lists submitted as follows: three
    15  members shall be appointed to the authority from a list of not less than
    16  six names, all of whom must be  residents  of  the  city  of  Rochester,
    17  submitted  to the governor by the council of the city of Rochester; four
    18  persons from a list of not less than eight persons, all of whom must  be
    19  residents  of  the  county of Monroe submitted by the legislature of the
    20  county of Monroe. Other counties  electing  to  participate  shall  each
    21  submit  to the governor a list of not less than two persons for each one
    22  hundred thousand or major fraction of the total  population,  as  deter-
    23  mined  by  the  last  federal  decennial  or federal county-wide special
    24  census. From the counties outside the county of Monroe which shall elect
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01461-01-7
        A. 201                              2
 
     1  to participate, the governor shall  appoint  one  member  for  each  one
     2  hundred  thousand  or  major fraction of the total population, as deter-
     3  mined by the last  federal  decennial  or  federal  county-wide  special
     4  census,  with  a  minimum of one member to represent each county outside
     5  the county of Monroe so electing to  participate.  All  members  of  the
     6  authority shall be residents of the area from which they are nominated.
     7    (b)  [There  shall  also  be  one]  The first non-voting member of the
     8  authority[, which] who shall not be considered in determining a quorum[.
     9  The non-voting member], shall be recommended  to  the  governor  by  the
    10  labor  organization  representing  the plurality of the employees within
    11  the authority and shall be a resident of the Rochester-Genesee  regional
    12  transportation  district  as described in section twelve hundred ninety-
    13  nine-cc of this title. [The]  Such  first  non-voting  member  shall  be
    14  appointed  for  a  term of five years, provided, however, that if at any
    15  time during the term of appointment [the] such non-voting member  ceases
    16  to  be affiliated with the labor organization representing the plurality
    17  of employees within the authority, then such labor organization  may  at
    18  any  time  during  such  term recommend a new member to the governor who
    19  shall serve the remainder of the term.  If  the  local  bargaining  unit
    20  decertifies  its  existing  union affiliation and certifies a new union,
    21  the union which represents the plurality of the employees may  recommend
    22  a  new member to the governor who shall serve the remainder of the term.
    23  The chairman of the authority, at his or  her  discretion,  may  exclude
    24  such  non-voting  member  from attending any portion of a meeting of the
    25  authority or of any committee held for the purpose of discussing negoti-
    26  ations with labor organizations, pending litigation involving the  labor
    27  organization,  or  the  investigation,  evaluation,  or discipline of an
    28  employee.
    29    (c) There shall also be a second non-voting member of  the  authority,
    30  who shall not be considered in determining a quorum. The second non-vot-
    31  ing member shall be appointed by the governor as a representative of the
    32  transit  dependent  and/or  disabled  community.  The  second non-voting
    33  member shall be appointed for a term of five years.   The chair  of  the
    34  authority,  at his or her discretion, may exclude such non-voting member
    35  from attending any portion of a meeting  of  the  authority  or  of  any
    36  committee  held pursuant to the executive session provisions of the open
    37  meetings law.
    38    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.