Bill Text: NY A01356 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows the New York state AFL-CIO to select one of the five voting members to the metropolitan transportation authority.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A01356 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A01356-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1356
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
(PREFILED)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. COLTON, HEVESI, JAFFEE, WEPRIN -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to allowing the
New York state AFL-CIO to select a member to the metropolitan trans-
portation authority
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 3 of part H of
3 chapter 25 of the laws of 2009, 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 sixteen other voting members, and two non-voting and four alternate
8 non-voting members, as described in subparagraph two of this paragraph
9 appointed by the governor by and with the advice and consent of the
10 senate. Any member appointed to a term commencing on or after June thir-
11 tieth, two thousand nine shall have experience in one or more of the
12 following areas: transportation, public administration, business manage-
13 ment, 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 shall be appointed on the written recommendation of
18 the mayor of the city of New York; and each of seven other voting
19 members other than the chairman shall be appointed after selection from
20 a written list of three recommendations from the chief executive officer
21 of the county in which the particular member is required to reside
22 pursuant to the provisions of this subdivision. Of the members appointed
23 on recommendation of the chief executive officer of a county, one such
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 member shall be, at the time of appointment, a resident of the county of
2 Nassau, one a resident of the county of Suffolk, one a resident of the
3 county of Westchester, one a resident of the county of Dutchess, one a
4 resident of the county of Orange, one a resident of the county of Putnam
5 and one a resident of the county of Rockland, provided that the term of
6 any member who is a resident of a county that has withdrawn from the
7 metropolitan commuter transportation district pursuant to section twelve
8 hundred seventy-nine-b of this article shall terminate upon the effec-
9 tive date of such county's withdrawal from such district. Of the five
10 voting members, other than the chairman, appointed by the governor with-
11 out recommendation from any other person, three shall be, at the time of
12 appointment, residents of the city of New York and two shall be, at the
13 time of appointment, residents of such city or of any of the aforemen-
14 tioned counties in the metropolitan commuter transportation district. OF
15 THESE FIVE VOTING MEMBERS, ONE SHALL BE SELECTED FROM A LIST SUBMITTED
16 TO THE GOVERNOR BY THE NEW YORK STATE AFL-CIO. The chairman and each of
17 the members shall be appointed for a term of six years, provided howev-
18 er, that the chairman first appointed shall serve for a term ending June
19 thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty-one, provided that thirty days after
20 the effective date of [the] chapter TWENTY-FIVE of the laws of two thou-
21 sand nine [which amended this subparagraph], the term of the chairman
22 shall expire; provided, further, that such chairman may continue to
23 discharge the duties of his or her office until the position of chairman
24 is filled by appointment by the governor upon the advice and consent of
25 the senate and the term of such new chairman shall terminate June thir-
26 tieth, two thousand fifteen. The sixteen other members first appointed
27 shall serve for the following terms: The members from the counties of
28 Nassau and Westchester shall each serve for a term ending June thirti-
29 eth, nineteen hundred eighty-five; the members from the county of
30 Suffolk and from the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam and Rockland
31 shall each serve for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred
32 ninety-two; two of the members appointed on recommendation of the mayor
33 of the city of New York shall each serve for a term ending June thirti-
34 eth, nineteen hundred eighty-four and, two shall each serve for a term
35 ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty-one; two of the members
36 appointed by the governor without the recommendation of any other person
37 shall each serve for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred
38 eighty-two, two shall each serve for a term ending June thirtieth, nine-
39 teen hundred eighty and one shall serve for a term ending June thirti-
40 eth, nineteen hundred eighty-five. The two non-voting and four alternate
41 non-voting members shall serve until January first, two thousand one.
42 The members from the counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam and Rockland
43 shall cast one collective vote.
44 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
45 the amendments to subparagraph 1 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of
46 section 1263 of the public authorities law made by section one of this
47 act shall not affect the expiration of such paragraph and shall be
48 deemed to expire therewith.
