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A04504 Summary:

A04504 Actions:

A04504 Committee Votes:

Committee:CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS   Chair:Zebrowski      
DATE:04/25/2023AYE/NAY:26/0  Action: Favorable         
Zebrowski
Aye
Lemondes
Aye
Cook
Aye
Blankenbush
Aye
Otis
Aye
Friend
Aye
Rozic
Aye
Palmesano
Aye
Kim
Aye
Angelino
Aye
Dilan
Aye
Jensen
Aye
Pheffer Amato
Aye
Curran
Aye
Vanel
Aye
Pirozzolo
Aye
Carroll
Aye
Fall
Aye
Jean-Pierre
Aye
Gonzalez-Rojas
Aye
Zinerman
Aye
Tapia
Aye
Jacobson
Aye
Bores
Aye
Shimsky
Aye
Simone
Aye

A04504 Floor Votes:

A04504 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         4504--A
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 16, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. EPSTEIN, CRUZ, SEAWRIGHT, GIBBS, COOK, DINOWITZ,
          COLTON, GLICK, SANTABARBARA, REYES, SHIMSKY, STERN,  CUNNINGHAM,  RAGA
          --  read  once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authori-
          ties and Commissions -- committee discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted 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
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05301-02-3
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     1  required to reside pursuant to the provisions of  this  subdivision.  Of
     2  the  members  appointed on recommendation of the chief executive officer
     3  of a county, one such member shall be, at the  time  of  appointment,  a
     4  resident  of  the  county  of  Nassau,  one  a resident of the county of
     5  Suffolk, one a resident of the county of Westchester, one a resident  of
     6  the  county  of  Dutchess, one a resident of the county of Orange, one a
     7  resident of the county of Putnam and one a resident  of  the  county  of
     8  Rockland,  provided  that  the term of any member who is a resident of a
     9  county that has withdrawn from the metropolitan commuter  transportation
    10  district pursuant to section twelve hundred seventy-nine-b of this title
    11  shall terminate upon the effective date of such county's withdrawal from
    12  such  district.  Of  the  five voting members, other than the [chairman]
    13  chairperson, appointed by the governor without recommendation  from  any
    14  other  person,  three shall be, at the time of appointment, residents of
    15  the city of New York and two shall be, at the time of appointment, resi-
    16  dents of such city or of any  of  the  aforementioned  counties  in  the
    17  metropolitan   commuter   transportation   district.  Provided  however,
    18  notwithstanding the foregoing residency requirement,  one  of  the  five
    19  voting members appointed by the governor without recommendation from any
    20  other person, other than the [chairman] chairperson, may be the director
    21  of the New York state division of the budget, and provided further that,
    22  in  the  event  of such appointment, the budget director's membership in
    23  the authority shall be deemed ex-officio.  Provided further, one of  the
    24  five voting members, other than the chairperson, appointed by the gover-
    25  nor  without  recommendation  by  any  other  person  shall be a transit
    26  dependent individual. A "transit dependent  individual"  shall  mean  an
    27  individual  who  is  limited  to public transit as their primary mode of
    28  transportation  because  the  individual  has  a  permanent  disability,
    29  provided  that  any local or statewide transit advocacy organization may
    30  recommend one or more transit dependent individuals to be considered for
    31  appointment pursuant to this section.  The  [chairman]  chairperson  and
    32  each of the members shall be appointed for a term of six years, provided
    33  however, that the [chairman] chairperson first appointed shall serve for
    34  a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty-one, provided that
    35  thirty  days  after the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two
    36  thousand nine which amended this subparagraph, the term of  the  [chair-
    37  man]  chairperson  shall expire; provided, further, that such [chairman]
    38  chairperson may continue to discharge the duties of his  or  her  office
    39  until the position of [chairman] chairperson is filled by appointment by
    40  the  governor  upon the advice and consent of the senate and the term of
    41  such new [chairman] chairperson  shall  terminate  June  thirtieth,  two
    42  thousand  fifteen. The sixteen other members first appointed shall serve
    43  for the following terms: The members from the  counties  of  Nassau  and
    44  Westchester  shall each serve for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen
    45  hundred eighty-five; the members from the county of Suffolk and from the
    46  counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam and Rockland shall each serve for a
    47  term ending June thirtieth, nineteen  hundred  ninety-two;  two  of  the
    48  members appointed on recommendation of the mayor of the city of New York
    49  shall  each  serve  for  a  term ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred
    50  eighty-four and, two shall each serve for a term ending June  thirtieth,
    51  nineteen  hundred eighty-one; two of the members appointed by the gover-
    52  nor without the recommendation of any other person shall each serve  for
    53  a  term  ending  June  thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty-two, two shall
    54  each serve for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty and
    55  one shall serve for a  term  ending  June  thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred
    56  eighty-five.  The  two  non-voting and four alternate non-voting members
        A. 4504--A                          3
 
     1  shall serve until January first, two thousand one. The members from  the
     2  counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam and Rockland shall cast one collec-
     3  tive vote.
     4    §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
     5  the amendments to subparagraph 1 of paragraph (a) of  subdivision  1  of
     6  section  1263  of the public authorities law made by section one of this
     7  act shall not affect the expiration  of  such  paragraph  and  shall  be
     8  deemed expired therewith.