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A05212 Summary:

A05212 Actions:

A05212 Committee Votes:

Committee:CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS   Chair:Zebrowski      
DATE:05/16/2023AYE/NAY:17/8  Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules        
Zebrowski
Aye
Lemondes
Nay
Cook
Aye
Blankenbush
Nay
Otis
Aye
Friend
Nay
Rozic
Aye
Palmesano
Nay
Kim
Aye
Angelino
Nay
Dilan
Aye
Jensen
Nay
Pheffer Amato
Aye
Curran
Nay
Vanel
Aye
Pirozzolo
Nay
Carroll
Aye
Fall
Excused
Jean-Pierre
Aye
Gonzalez-Rojas
Aye
Zinerman
Aye
Tapia
Aye
Jacobson
Aye
Bores
Aye
Shimsky
Aye
Simone
Aye

Committee:RULES   Chair:Pretlow      
DATE:05/17/2023AYE/NAY:29/0  Action: Favorable         
Heastie
Excused
Barclay
Aye
Weinstein
Aye
Hawley
Aye
Pretlow
Aye
Giglio
Aye
Cook
Aye
Blankenbush
Aye
Glick
Aye
Norris
Aye
Aubry
Aye
Ra
Aye
Dinowitz
Aye
Brabenec
Aye
Colton
Aye
Palmesano
Aye
Magnarelli
Aye
Reilly
Aye
Paulin
Aye
Peoples-Stokes
Aye
Benedetto
Aye
Lavine
Aye
Lupardo
Aye
Zebrowski
Aye
Thiele
Aye
Braunstein
Aye
Dickens
Excused
Davila
Aye
Hyndman
Aye
Rozic
Aye
Bronson
Aye

A05212 Floor Votes:

A05212 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         5212--A
                                                                Cal. No. 143
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      March 6, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. WALLACE, AUBRY, JEAN-PIERRE, SEAWRIGHT, EPSTEIN,
          TAYLOR, CRUZ, SIMON, DICKENS, COOK, OTIS, REYES, COLTON,  LEE,  LEVEN-
          BERG  --  read  once  and  referred  to the Committee on Corporations,
          Authorities and Commissions -- 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;
    17    (b) "Appointing power" means an individual or government  or  legisla-
    18  tive  body  charged with the responsibility to recommend for appointment
    19  or to appoint or reappoint a person or persons to the board of  a  state
    20  or local authority;
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03891-02-3
        A. 5212--A                          2
 
     1    (c)  "Board" means the governing board or governing body or other such
     2  governing entity of local and state authorities;
     3    (d)  "Preference"  means  the  act of favoring one person over another
     4  that is inversely proportional, provided however,  such  favoring  shall
     5  not be dispositive;
     6    (e) "Inversely proportional" means the greater the percentage of women
     7  on  the  board  the lower the weight of the preference and the lower the
     8  percentage of women on the board the greater the weight of  the  prefer-
     9  ence.
    10    3.  (a) All appointive state and local authorities heretofore or here-
    11  after established by law or resolution shall  have  recommendations  for
    12  appointments,  or reappointments that are gender balanced as provided by
    13  this section.
    14    (b) Persons shall be recommended for appointment, appointed  or  reap-
    15  pointed  to  any  state  or local authority only if that recommendation,
    16  appointment or reappointment is gender  balanced  as  provided  by  this
    17  section.
    18    4.  An  appointing  power shall make recommendations, appointments and
    19  reappointments to state and local authorities created prior  to,  on  or
    20  after  August  first,  two  thousand twenty-four, in a manner which will
    21  ensure a gender balanced appointment or reappointment  for  each  public
    22  authority.
    23    5.  The  appointing  power  shall  undertake  all efforts necessary to
    24  obtain lists of names of qualified  candidates  to  be  recommended  for
    25  appointment  to  state  and  local  authorities,  in  furtherance of the
    26  advancement of the policy of this section  to  achieve  gender  balanced
    27  appointments  and  reappointments  to  state  and local authority boards
    28  pursuant to subdivisions three and four of this section.
    29    6.  Multiple  appointing  powers  charged  with  the   recommendation,
    30  appointment  or  reappointment of individuals to the same state or local
    31  public authority shall consult each other in order to  comply  with  the
    32  requirements of this section.
    33    7.  Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit an individ-
    34  ual from completing a term for which the person was appointed, prior  to
    35  the effective date of this section.
    36    8.  Each  state  and  local  authority  shall  include  the  number of
    37  appointed or reappointed board members in the last year, the  number  of
    38  women  board  members  appointed  or  reappointed  in the last year, the
    39  current number of board members on the board  and  the  gender  of  such
    40  board  members in the annual report required pursuant to section twenty-
    41  eight hundred of this article.
    42    § 2. This act shall take effect August 1, 2024 and shall expire and be
    43  deemed repealed August 1, 2034.