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                                  4504--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 16, 2023
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 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:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section
 1263 of the public authorities law, as amended by section 1 of part E of
 chapter 39 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   (1) There is hereby created the "metropolitan transportation  authori-
 ty."  The authority shall be a body corporate and politic constituting a
 public  benefit corporation. The authority shall consist of a [chairman]
 CHAIRPERSON, sixteen other voting members, and two non-voting  and  four
 alternate  non-voting  members, as described in subparagraph two of this
 paragraph appointed by the governor by and with the advice  and  consent
 of  the  senate.  Any  member appointed to a term commencing on or after
 June thirtieth, two thousand nine shall have experience in one  or  more
 of  the following areas: transportation, public administration, business
 management, finance, accounting, law, engineering, land use,  urban  and
 regional   planning,   management   of  large  capital  projects,  labor
 relations, or have experience in some other area of activity central  to
 the  mission of the authority.  Four of the sixteen voting members other
 than the [chairman] CHAIRPERSON shall be appointed on the written recom-
 mendation of the mayor of the city of New York; and each of seven  other
 voting  members other than the [chairman] CHAIRPERSON shall be appointed
 after selection from a written list of three  recommendations  from  the
 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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 required to reside pursuant to the provisions of  this  subdivision.  Of
 the  members  appointed on recommendation of the chief executive officer
 of a county, one such member shall be, at the  time  of  appointment,  a
 resident  of  the  county  of  Nassau,  one  a resident of the county of
 Suffolk, one a resident of the county of Westchester, one a resident  of
 the  county  of  Dutchess, one a resident of the county of Orange, one a
 resident of the county of Putnam and one a resident  of  the  county  of
 Rockland,  provided  that  the term of any member who is a resident of a
 county that has withdrawn from the metropolitan commuter  transportation
 district pursuant to section twelve hundred seventy-nine-b of this title
 shall terminate upon the effective date of such county's withdrawal from
 such  district.  Of  the  five voting members, other than the [chairman]
 CHAIRPERSON, appointed by the governor without recommendation  from  any
 other  person,  three shall be, at the time of appointment, residents of
 the city of New York and two shall be, at the time of appointment, resi-
 dents of such city or of any  of  the  aforementioned  counties  in  the
 metropolitan   commuter   transportation   district.  Provided  however,
 notwithstanding the foregoing residency requirement,  one  of  the  five
 voting members appointed by the governor without recommendation from any
 other person, other than the [chairman] CHAIRPERSON, may be the director
 of the New York state division of the budget, and provided further that,
 in  the  event  of such appointment, the budget director's membership in
 the authority shall be deemed ex-officio.  PROVIDED FURTHER, ONE OF  THE
 FIVE VOTING MEMBERS, OTHER THAN THE CHAIRPERSON, APPOINTED BY THE GOVER-
 NOR  WITHOUT  RECOMMENDATION  BY  ANY  OTHER  PERSON  SHALL BE A TRANSIT
 DEPENDENT INDIVIDUAL. A "TRANSIT DEPENDENT  INDIVIDUAL"  SHALL  MEAN  AN
 INDIVIDUAL  WHO  IS  LIMITED  TO PUBLIC TRANSIT AS THEIR PRIMARY MODE OF
 TRANSPORTATION  BECAUSE  THE  INDIVIDUAL  HAS  A  PERMANENT  DISABILITY,
 PROVIDED  THAT  ANY LOCAL OR STATEWIDE TRANSIT ADVOCACY ORGANIZATION MAY
 RECOMMEND ONE OR MORE TRANSIT DEPENDENT INDIVIDUALS TO BE CONSIDERED FOR
 APPOINTMENT PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION.  The  [chairman]  CHAIRPERSON  and
 each of the members shall be appointed for a term of six years, provided
 however, that the [chairman] CHAIRPERSON first appointed shall serve for
 a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty-one, provided that
 thirty  days  after the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two
 thousand nine which amended this subparagraph, the term of  the  [chair-
 man]  CHAIRPERSON  shall expire; provided, further, that such [chairman]
 CHAIRPERSON may continue to discharge the duties of his  or  her  office
 until the position of [chairman] CHAIRPERSON is filled by appointment by
 the  governor  upon the advice and consent of the senate and the term of
 such new [chairman] CHAIRPERSON  shall  terminate  June  thirtieth,  two
 thousand  fifteen. The sixteen other members first appointed shall serve
 for the following terms: The members from the  counties  of  Nassau  and
 Westchester  shall each serve for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen
 hundred eighty-five; the members from the county of Suffolk and from the
 counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam and Rockland shall each serve for a
 term ending June thirtieth, nineteen  hundred  ninety-two;  two  of  the
 members appointed on recommendation of the mayor of the city of New York
 shall  each  serve  for  a  term ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred
 eighty-four and, two shall each serve for a term ending June  thirtieth,
 nineteen  hundred eighty-one; two of the members appointed by the gover-
 nor without the recommendation of any other person shall each serve  for
 a  term  ending  June  thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty-two, two shall
 each serve for a term ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred eighty and
 one shall serve for a  term  ending  June  thirtieth,  nineteen  hundred
 eighty-five.  The  two  non-voting and four alternate non-voting members
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 shall serve until January first, two thousand one. The members from  the
 counties of Dutchess, Orange, Putnam and Rockland shall cast one collec-
 tive vote.
   §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
 the amendments to subparagraph 1 of paragraph (a) of  subdivision  1  of
 section  1263  of the public authorities law made by section one of this
 act shall not affect the expiration  of  such  paragraph  and  shall  be
 deemed expired therewith.