New York S 3744: Relates to gender balance in public authorities, industrial development agencies and local development corporations

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S03744 Summary:

BILL NOS03744 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORCLEARE

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COSPNSRJACKSON

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §2830, Pub Auth L

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Relates to gender balance on boards of state and local public authorities; provides that all appointive state and local authorities heretofore or hereafter established by law or resolution shall have recommendations for appointments, or reappointments that are gender balanced.

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BILL NOS03744 

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01/29/2025REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

02/11/20251ST REPORT CAL.315

02/12/20252ND REPORT CAL.

02/24/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/13/2025COMMITTED TO RULES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3744

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 29, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. CLEARE, JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed,
 and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,
 Authorities and Commissions

 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 2830 to read as follows:
 3 § 2830. 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;
 21 (c) "Board" means the governing board or governing body or other such
 22 governing entity of local and state authorities;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08091-01-5

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 1 (d) "Preference" means the act of favoring one person over another
 2 that is inversely proportional, provided however, such favoring shall
 3 not be dispositive;
 4 (e) "Inversely proportional" means the greater the percentage of women
 5 on the board the lower the weight of the preference and the lower the
 6 percentage of women on the board the greater the weight of the prefer-
 7 ence.
 8 3. (a) All appointive state and local authorities heretofore or here-
 9 after established by law or resolution shall have recommendations for
 10 appointments, or reappointments that are gender balanced as provided by
 11 this section.
 12 (b) To the extent practicable, persons shall be recommended for
 13 appointment, appointed or reappointed to any state or local authority
 14 only if that recommendation, appointment or reappointment is gender
 15 balanced as provided by this section.
 16 4. An appointing power shall make recommendations, appointments and
 17 reappointments to state and local authorities created prior to, on or
 18 after August first, two thousand twenty-five, in a manner which, to the
 19 extent practicable, will ensure a gender balanced appointment or reap-
 20 pointment for each public authority.
 21 5. The appointing power s