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A10056 Summary:

BILL NOA10056 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORPaulin

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd Arts 4, 7-B & 7-D, §1 of Chap 154 of 1921

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Relates to port authority organization, appearance and notice.

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BILL NOA10056 

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01/30/2026referred to corporations, authorities and commissions

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 10056

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 30, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

 AN ACT to amend chapter 154 of the laws of 1921 relating to the port
 authority of New York and New Jersey, in relation to port authority
 organization, appearance and notice

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1, subparagraph 2 of paragraph d of subdivision
 2 3 and subdivisions 5 and 6 of article 4 of section 1 of chapter 154 of
 3 the laws of 1921 relating to the port authority of New York and New
 4 Jersey, as amended by chapter 559 of the laws of 2015, paragraph a of
 5 subdivision 6 as amended by chapter 104 of the laws of 2020, are amended
 6 to read as follows:
 7 1. Commissioners. a. The port authority shall consist of twelve voting
 8 commissioners and four non-voting commissioners as described in para-
 9 graph b of this subdivision. Of the twelve voting commissioners[,]
 10 there shall be six resident voters from the state of New York, at least
 11 four of whom shall be resident voters of the city of New York, and six
 12 resident voters from the state of New Jersey, at least four of whom
 13 shall be resident voters within the New Jersey portion of the district,
 14 the New York members to be chosen by the state of New York and the New
 15 Jersey members by the state of New Jersey in the manner and for the
 16 terms fixed and determined from time to time by the legislature of each
 17 state respectively, except as herein provided. The New York members
 18 shall be appointed by the governor of New York with the advice and
 19 consent of the New York state senate. The New Jersey members shall be
 20 appointed by the governor of New Jersey with the advice and consent of
 21 the New Jersey state senate. Each commissioner may be removed or
 22 suspended from office as provided by the law of the state from which
 23 [he] such commissioner shall be appointed. Any commissioner appointed to
 24 a term commencing on or after January 1, 2027 shall have experience in
 25 one or more of the following areas: transportation, public adminis-
 26 tration, business management, finance, accounting, law, engineering,
 27 land use, urban and regional planning, management of large capital

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01988-02-6

 A. 10056 2

 1 projects, labor relations, or experience in some other area of activity
 2 central to the mission of the port authority. One of the six voting
 3 commissioners chosen by the state of New York shall be appointed on the
 4 written recommendation of the mayor of the city of New York. The voting
 5 commissioners shall be appointed for a term of four years and shall
 6 serve no more than two terms. The terms of the voting commissioners
 7 shall be staggered so that two of the six voting commissioners appointed
 8 by the state of New York will have their terms expire in alternating two
 9 year shifts and two of the six voting commissioners appointed by the
 10 state of New Jersey will have their terms expire in alternating two
 11 years shifts.
 12 b. There shall be four non-voting commissioners of the port authority,
 13 as established in paragraph a of this subdivision. The first non-voting
 14 commissioner shall be a regular mass transit user of the state of New
 15 York based facilities of the authority and be recommended to the gover-
 16 nor of the state of New York by a rider advocacy group. The second non-
 17 voting commissioner shall be a regular user of the state of New Jersey
 18 based