Allows the alternate non-voting member of the metropolitan transportation authority who is recommended by the labor organization representing the majority of employees of the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company to be a resident of any state in which the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company operates.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9229
IN ASSEMBLY
February 20, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to the residence
of a certain non-voting member of the metropolitan transportation
authority
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph 2 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section
2 1263 of the public authorities law, as amended by chapter 549 of the
3 laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
4 (2) There shall be two non-voting members and four alternate non-vot-
5 ing members of the authority, as referred to in subparagraph one of this
6 paragraph.
7 The first non-voting member shall be a regular mass transit user of
8 the facilities of the authority and be recommended to the governor by
9 the New York city transit authority advisory council. The first alter-
10 nate non-voting member shall be a regular mass transit user of the
11 facilities of the authority and be recommended to the governor by the
12 Metro-North commuter council. The second alternate non-voting member
13 shall be a regular mass transit user of the facilities of the authority
14 and be recommended to the governor by the Long Island Rail Road
15 commuter's council.
16 The second non-voting member shall be recommended to the governor by
17 the labor organization representing the majority of employees of the
18 Long Island Rail Road. The third alternate non-voting member shall be
19 recommended to the governor by the labor organization representing the
20 majority of employees of the New York city transit authority. The fourth
21 alternate non-voting member shall be recommended to the governor by the
22 labor organization representing the majority of employees of the Metro-
23 North Commuter Railroad Company. Notwithstanding any other provision of
24 law, the alternate non-voting member recommended by the labor organiza-
25 tion representing the majority of employees of the Metro-North Commuter
26 Railroad Company may be a resident of any state in which the Metro-North
27 Commuter Railroad Company operates. The chairman of the authority, at
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 his direction, may exclude such non-voting member or alternate non-vot-
2 ing member from attending any portion of a meeting of the authority or
3 of any committee established pursuant to paragraph (b) of subdivision
4 four of this section held for the purpose of discussing negotiations
5 with labor organizations.
6 The non-voting member and the two alternate non-voting members repres-
7 enting the New York York city transit authority advisory council, the
8 Metro-North commuter council, and the Long Island Rail Road commuter's
9 council shall serve eighteen month rotating terms, after which time an
10 alternate non-voting member shall become the non-voting member and the
11 rotation shall continue until each alternate member has served at least
12 one eighteen month term as a non-voting member. The other non-voting
13 member and alternate non-voting members representing the New York city
14 transit authority, Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company, and the Long
15 Island Rail Road labor organizations shall serve eighteen month rotating
16 terms, after which time an alternate non-voting member shall become the
17 non-voting member and the rotation shall continue until each alternate
18 member has served at least one eighteen month term as a non-voting
19 member. The transit authority and the commuter railroads shall not be
20 represented concurrently by the two non-voting members during any such
21 eighteen month period.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
23 the amendments to subparagraph 2 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of
24 section 1263 of the public authorities law made by section one of this
25 act shall not affect the expiration of such paragraph and shall be
26 deemed expired therewith.
