New York State Assembly

 
•  Summary 
 
•  Actions 
 
•  Committee Votes 
 
•  Floor Votes 
 
•  Memo 
 
•  Text 
 
•  LFIN 
 
•  Chamber Video/Transcript 

A00587 Summary:

A00587 Actions:

A00587 Committee Votes:

Committee:CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS   Chair:Paulin      
DATE:04/30/2019AYE/NAY:19/6  Action: Favorable         
Paulin
Aye
Lawrence
Nay
Cook
Aye
Blankenbush
Nay
Galef
Aye
Friend
Nay
Rodriguez
Excused
Malliotakis
Aye
Quart
Aye
Palmesano
Nay
Otis
Aye
Lalor
Nay
Rozic
Aye
LiPetri
Nay
Kim
Aye
Buchwald
Aye
Seawright
Aye
Dilan
Aye
Richardson
Aye
De La Rosa
Aye
Pheffer Amato
Aye
Vanel
Aye
Carroll
Aye
Niou
Aye
Fall
Aye
Jean-Pierre
Aye

A00587 Floor Votes:

A00587 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         587--B
                                                                 Cal. No. 27
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M. of A. ROZIC, AUBRY, BLAKE, DE LA ROSA, D'URSO, GALEF,
          JAFFEE, JEAN-PIERRE, NOLAN,  SEAWRIGHT,  EPSTEIN,  RODRIGUEZ,  TAYLOR,
          CRUZ,  SIMON, GRIFFIN, PICHARDO, ORTIZ, DICKENS, ARROYO, COOK, FERNAN-
          DEZ -- read once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Corporations,
          Authorities  and  Commissions  --  committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --
          ordered  to  a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining
          its place on the order of third reading
 
        AN ACT to amend the  public  authorities  law,  in  relation  to  gender
          balance  in  state and local public authorities; and providing for the
          repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  The  public  authorities  law  is amended by adding a new
     2  section 2829 to read as follows:
     3    § 2829. Program promoting women to state and local  authority  boards.
     4  1.  The  legislature  finds  that  there  is a need to promote women for
     5  recommendation and appointment to state and local authority boards in an
     6  effort to reverse a long history  of  discrimination  against  women  on
     7  boards of public authorities. The program proposed by this section would
     8  provide  for  the  use of gender as a factor when making recommendations
     9  and appointments to state  and  local  authority  boards.  This  section
    10  serves to achieve the benefits that come with the important governmental
    11  objective  of  attaining  gender  diversity on state and local authority
    12  boards.
    13    2. For the purposes of this section, the following  terms  shall  have
    14  the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires:
    15    (a)  "Gender  balance" means providing women candidates with a prefer-
    16  ence when appointing individuals to boards;
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01324-05-9
        A. 587--B                           2
 
     1    (b) "Appointing power" means an individual or government  or  legisla-
     2  tive  body  charged with the responsibility to recommend for appointment
     3  or to appoint or reappoint a person or persons to the board of  a  state
     4  or local authority.
     5    (c)  "Board" means the governing board or governing body or other such
     6  governing entity of local and state authorities.
     7    (d) "Preference" means the act of favoring  one  person  over  another
     8  that  is  inversely  proportional, provided however, such favoring shall
     9  not be dispositive.
    10    (e) "Inversely proportional" means the greater the percentage of women
    11  on the board the lower the weight of the preference and  the  lower  the
    12  percentage  of  women on the board the greater the weight of the prefer-
    13  ence.
    14    3. (a) All appointive state and local authorities heretofore or  here-
    15  after  established  by  law or resolution shall have recommendations for
    16  appointments, or reappointments that are gender balanced as provided  by
    17  this section.
    18    (b)  Persons  shall be recommended for appointment, appointed or reap-
    19  pointed to any state or local authority  only  if  that  recommendation,
    20  appointment  or  reappointment  is  gender  balanced as provided by this
    21  section.
    22    4. An appointing power shall make  recommendations,  appointments  and
    23  reappointments  to  state  and local authorities created prior to, on or
    24  after August first, two thousand twenty, in a manner which will ensure a
    25  gender balanced appointment or reappointment for each public authority.
    26    5. The appointing power  shall  undertake  all  efforts  necessary  to
    27  obtain  lists  of  names  of  qualified candidates to be recommended for
    28  appointment to state  and  local  authorities,  in  furtherance  of  the
    29  advancement  of  the  policy  of this section to achieve gender balanced
    30  appointments and reappointments to  state  and  local  authority  boards
    31  pursuant to subdivisions three and four of this section.
    32    6.   Multiple  appointing  powers  charged  with  the  recommendation,
    33  appointment or reappointment of individuals to the same state  or  local
    34  public  authority  shall  consult each other in order to comply with the
    35  requirements of this section.
    36    7. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit an  individ-
    37  ual  from completing a term for which the person was appointed, prior to
    38  the effective date of this section.
    39    8. Each  state  and  local  authority  shall  include  the  number  of
    40  appointed  or  reappointed board members in the last year, the number of
    41  women board members appointed or  reappointed  in  the  last  year,  the
    42  current  number  of  board  members  on the board and the gender of such
    43  board members in the annual report required pursuant to section  twenty-
    44  eight hundred of this article.
    45    § 2. This act shall take effect August 1, 2020 and shall expire and be
    46  deemed repealed on and after August 1, 2030.