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S05069 Summary:

BILL NOS05069A
 
SAME ASSAME AS A04504-A
 
SPONSORPERSAUD
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd 1263, Pub Auth L
 
Requires one voting member of the metropolitan transportation authority be a transit dependent individual.
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S05069 Actions:

BILL NOS05069A
 
02/22/2023REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
04/25/2023AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO TRANSPORTATION
04/25/2023PRINT NUMBER 5069A
06/06/2023COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
06/06/2023ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1639
06/06/2023SUBSTITUTED BY A4504A
 A04504 AMEND=A Epstein
 02/16/2023referred to corporations, authorities and commissions
 04/18/2023amend (t) and recommit to corporations, authorities and commissions
 04/18/2023print number 4504a
 04/25/2023reported
 04/27/2023advanced to third reading cal.171
 05/31/2023passed assembly
 05/31/2023delivered to senate
 05/31/2023REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
 06/06/2023SUBSTITUTED FOR S5069A
 06/06/20233RD READING CAL.1639
 06/06/2023PASSED SENATE
 06/06/2023RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
 11/13/2023delivered to governor
 11/20/2023signed chap.672
 11/20/2023approval memo.32
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S05069 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         5069--A
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    February 22, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen. PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation --  commit-
          tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
          mitted to said committee
 
        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring one
          voting member of the metropolitan transportation authority be a trans-
          it dependent individual
 
          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 1 of part E of
     3  chapter 39 of the laws of 2019, 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  chairperson,  sixteen  other voting members, and two non-voting and four
     8  alternate non-voting members, as described in subparagraph two  of  this
     9  paragraph  appointed  by the governor by and with the advice and consent
    10  of the senate. Any member appointed to a term  commencing  on  or  after
    11  June  thirtieth,  two thousand nine shall have experience in one or more
    12  of the following areas: transportation, public administration,  business
    13  management,  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] chairperson shall be appointed on the written recom-
    18  mendation  of the mayor of the city of New York; and each of seven other
    19  voting members other than the [chairman] chairperson shall be  appointed
    20  after  selection  from  a written list of three recommendations from the
    21  chief executive officer of the county in which the particular member  is
    22  required  to  reside  pursuant to the provisions of this subdivision. Of
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05301-03-3

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     1  the members appointed on recommendation of the chief  executive  officer
     2  of  a  county,  one  such member shall be, at the time of appointment, a
     3  resident of the county of Nassau,  one  a  resident  of  the  county  of
     4  Suffolk,  one a resident of the county of Westchester, one a resident of
     5  the county of Dutchess, one a resident of the county of  Orange,  one  a
     6  resident  of  the  county  of Putnam and one a resident of the county of
     7  Rockland, provided that the term of any member who is a  resident  of  a
     8  county  that has withdrawn from the metropolitan commuter transportation
     9  district pursuant to section twelve hundred seventy-nine-b of this title
    10  shall terminate upon the effective date of such county's withdrawal from
    11  such district. Of the five voting members,  other  than  the  [chairman]
    12  chairperson,  appointed  by the governor without recommendation from any
    13  other person, three shall be, at the time of appointment,  residents  of
    14  the city of New York and two shall be, at the time of appointment, resi-
    15  dents  of  such  city  or  of  any of the aforementioned counties in the
    16  metropolitan  commuter  transportation   district.   Provided   however,
    17  notwithstanding  the  foregoing  residency  requirement, one of the five
    18  voting members appointed by the governor without recommendation from any
    19  other person, other than the [chairman] chairperson, may be the director
    20  of the New York state division of the budget, and provided further that,
    21  in the event of such appointment, the budget  director's  membership  in
    22  the  authority shall be deemed ex-officio.  Provided further, one of the
    23  five voting members, other than the chairperson, appointed by the gover-
    24  nor without recommendation by  any  other  person  shall  be  a  transit
    25  dependent  individual.  A  "transit  dependent individual" shall mean an
    26  individual who is limited to public transit as  their  primary  mode  of
    27  transportation  because  the  individual  has  a  permanent  disability,
    28  provided that any local or statewide transit advocacy  organization  may
    29  recommend one or more transit dependent individuals to be considered for
    30  appointment  pursuant  to  this  section. The [chairman] chairperson and
    31  each of the members shall be appointed for a term of six years, provided
    32  however, that the [chairman] chairperson first appointed shall serve for
    33  a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty-one, provided that
    34  thirty days after the effective date of the chapter of the laws  of  two
    35  thousand  nine  which amended this subparagraph, the term of the [chair-
    36  man] chairperson shall expire; provided, further, that  such  [chairman]
    37  chairperson  may  continue  to discharge the duties of his or her office
    38  until the position of [chairman] chairperson is filled by appointment by
    39  the governor upon the advice and consent of the senate and the  term  of
    40  such  new  [chairman]  chairperson  shall  terminate June thirtieth, two
    41  thousand fifteen. The sixteen other members first appointed shall  serve
    42  for  the  following  terms:  The members from the counties of Nassau and
    43  Westchester shall each serve for a term ending June thirtieth,  nineteen
    44  hundred eighty-five; the members from the county of Suffolk and from the
    45  counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam and Rockland shall each serve for a
    46  term  ending  June  thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred ninety-two; two of the
    47  members appointed on recommendation of the mayor of the city of New York
    48  shall each serve for a term  ending  June  thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred
    49  eighty-four  and, two shall each serve for a term ending June thirtieth,
    50  nineteen hundred eighty-one; two of the members appointed by the  gover-
    51  nor  without the recommendation of any other person shall each serve for
    52  a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen  hundred  eighty-two,  two  shall
    53  each serve for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty and
    54  one  shall  serve  for  a  term  ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred
    55  eighty-five. The two non-voting and four  alternate  non-voting  members
    56  shall  serve until January first, two thousand one. The members from the

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     1  counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam and Rockland shall cast one collec-
     2  tive vote.
     3    §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
     4  the amendments to subparagraph 1 of paragraph (a) of  subdivision  1  of
     5  section  1263  of the public authorities law made by section one of this
     6  act shall not affect the expiration  of  such  paragraph  and  shall  be
     7  deemed expired therewith.
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