Bill Text: NY A00838 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the organization of industrial development agencies and the definition of labor organization.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - referred to local governments [A00838 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A00838-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           838

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES, LEVENBERG, JACOBSON, OTIS, SANTABARBARA,
          SLATER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments

        AN  ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to the organiza-
          tion of industrial development agencies and the  definition  of  labor
          organization

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 854 of the general  municipal  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 22 to read as follows:
     3    (22)  "Labor  organization"--shall  mean any organization which exists
     4  and is constituted for the purpose, in whole or in part,  of  collective
     5  bargaining, or of dealing with employers concerning grievances, terms or
     6  conditions of employment, or of other mutual aid or protection and which
     7  is not a company union.
     8    §  2.  Subdivision  2  of section 856 of the general municipal law, as
     9  amended by chapter 356 of the laws  of  1993,  is  amended  to  read  as
    10  follows:
    11    2.  (a) An agency shall be a corporate governmental agency, constitut-
    12  ing a public  benefit  corporation.  Except  as  otherwise  provided  by
    13  special act of the legislature, an agency shall consist of not less than
    14  three  nor more than seven members who shall be appointed by the govern-
    15  ing body of each municipality and who shall serve at the pleasure of the
    16  appointing authority. If the initial addition of the  mandatory  members
    17  required  pursuant  to  paragraph (b) of this subdivision would increase
    18  the agency size to above the maximum seven-member limit, the agency  may
    19  temporarily increase its size to allow for the addition of such mandato-
    20  ry  members.  Provided, however, that such agency size shall decrease to
    21  seven or fewer  members  as  the  seats  of  non-mandatory  members  are
    22  vacated.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03309-01-5
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     1    (b)  Such  members  may  include  representatives  of local government
     2  [school] and business, and shall at least include a representative of  a
     3  local  labor organization and either a school district superintendent or
     4  a representative of a school board. A  member  shall  continue  to  hold
     5  office  until  [his] their successor is appointed and has qualified. The
     6  governing body of each municipality shall designate the first [chairman]
     7  chairperson and file with  the  secretary  of  state  a  certificate  of
     8  appointment  or  reappointment of any member. Such members shall receive
     9  no compensation for their services but shall be entitled to  the  neces-
    10  sary  expenses,  including traveling expenses, incurred in the discharge
    11  of their duties.
    12    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    13  it shall have become a law.