Expands the composition of the board of trustees of the New York City Employees' Retirement system to include the employee organization which represents the largest number of uniformed employees for the purposes of collective bargaining on pension matters.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3586
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 7, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to the composition of the board of trustees of the New York
city employees' retirement system
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 5 of subdivision b of section 13-103 of the
2 administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 5. (a) [Three] Four employee representatives, who shall each be enti-
5 tled to cast one vote. The chief executive officer of each of the
6 [three] four employee organizations designated as [herein] provided in
7 this subdivision shall be one of such representatives.
8 (b) On or before July first of the year in which this subparagraph
9 shall take effect, the director of labor relations of the city (or other
10 officer performing the same or similar functions under another title)
11 shall, by instrument in writing filed in his or her office and with the
12 board, designate (i) the three employee organizations which represent,
13 for the purposes of collective bargaining on pension matters, the larg-
14 est number of employees who are members of the retirement system, and
15 (ii) the employee organization which represents, for the purposes of
16 collective bargaining on pension matters, the largest number of
17 uniformed employees who are members of the retirement system. Such
18 designation shall be reviewed annually by such director or other offi-
19 cer, and if such review discloses a change in the standing of the
20 employee organizations concerned, such designation shall thereupon be
21 revised by him or her to specify the [three] four such organizations
22 having the leading representational status as [hereinabove] prescribed
23 in this subparagraph.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (c) Any such employee representative may, by written authorization
2 filed with the board, designate one or more persons to act in the place
3 of such member on such board in the event of the absence of such member,
4 provided, however, that the by-laws or constitution of the organization
5 of which he or she is chief executive officer authorize such desig-
6 nation.
7 (d) Each act of such board shall be by a resolution adopted by at
8 least [three] four and [three-fifths] one-fifth votes. The concurrence
9 of one employee representative and one non-employee representative
10 member or members entitled to one vote shall be necessary for an act of
11 such board. A quorum of such board shall consist of members entitled to
12 cast at least [three] four and [three-fifths] one-fifth votes.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
