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                                   2746
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 22, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'PHARROW  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
 AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to the membership of
   the Republic airport commission
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 402 of the transportation
 law, as amended by a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the  transpor-
 tation  law  relating  to the membership of the Republic airport commis-
 sion, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 9475 and A. 10336, are
 amended to read as follows:
   1. Upon assumption by the department of transportation of jurisdiction
 over the airport facility and surrounding area located in the county  of
 Suffolk,  known  as Republic airport, there shall thereupon be created a
 Republic airport commission.  This commission will be an advisory  coun-
 cil to the commissioner with respect to administration and management of
 the  Republic  airport facilities and its surrounding areas with respect
 to projects to be undertaken and operations and management of the facil-
 ities at such airport. The commission shall be composed of nine  members
 who  are residents of Nassau county or Suffolk county, one of whom shall
 be appointed by the  governor  without  recommendation  from  any  other
 person,  four of whom shall be appointed by the governor upon the recom-
 mendation of the temporary president of the senate,  and  four  of  whom
 shall be appointed by the governor upon the recommendation of the speak-
 er  of  the  assembly.   FOR EACH APPOINTMENT UPON A RECOMMENDATION, THE
 RECOMMENDER SHALL SUBMIT A LIST OF NO FEWER  THAN  THREE  PERSONS,  FROM
 WHICH  THE  GOVERNOR  SHALL  APPOINT  ONE.  All  such  members  shall be
 appointed for a term of four years, except in the case  that  a  vacancy
 occurs  and  is  filled  before  the  expiration of a member's term, the
 member appointed to fill such vacancy shall be appointed to the  remain-
 der  of  such term. By virtue of such commissioner's office, the commis-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 sioner of transportation or the commissioner's designee shall be  an  ex
 officio  member  of  the  commission.   All such members shall be deemed
 officers of the state in  connection  with  the  provisions  of  section
 seventeen  of  the  public  officers  law. The members of the commission
 shall appoint a chair from among their number. Members shall not receive
 a salary or other compensation, but shall be reimbursed for their actual
 and necessary expenses incurred in the  performance  of  their  official
 duties.
   2.  The Republic airport commission shall assist in the development of
 a program relative to the administration and management of the  Republic
 airport  and to advise the commissioner of transportation with regard to
 such other programs relative to the Republic airport as [he] THE COMMIS-
 SIONER may undertake. Such program shall include, but not be limited  to
 identification  of future capital needs, examining the means and methods
 of financing such future capital needs, the promotion and examination of
 the financing means and methods for the economic development of the area
 around the airport, the joining together of  such  economic  development
 and  the  airport  operations,  the identification and implementation of
 ways of working with the local community to accomplish the  program  and
 the  identification  of non-aviation uses and purposes and prorations of
 use or purposes for determinations of in lieu of tax payments. Once  the
 commission  has been established, the commissioner and/or the department
 shall effectuate the authorizations, powers and/or duties set  forth  in
 section  four  hundred  of this article only following the consultation,
 guidance, advice and assistance of the commission. The Republic  airport
 commission  shall  meet  at  least  six  times a year at the call of the
 commissioner of transportation or the chair of the commission and  shall
 keep a record of all its proceedings and recommendations. Staff services
 for  the commission shall be performed by personnel of the department of
 transportation. In carrying out the functions  and  responsibilities  of
 the commissioner and the commission, the commissioner shall designate an
 executive  secretary from among the staff of the department of transpor-
 tation who will act as the administrative agent of  the  commission  and
 assist the commission in fulfilling its duties and functions.
   §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the transportation  law
 relating  to  the  membership  of  the  Republic  airport commission, as
 proposed in legislative bills  numbers  S.  9475  and  A.  10336,  takes
 effect.