New York S 5908: Modifies the membership of the metropolitan transportation authority

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S05908 Summary:

BILL NOS05908 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORLANZA

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §1263, Pub Auth L

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Increases the membership of the metropolitan transportation authority from sixteen to seventeen members; provides for the appointment for one member from each of New York City's boroughs on the written recommendation of the mayor of New York City.

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BILL NOS05908 

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03/03/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5908

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 3, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to the member-
 ship of the metropolitan transportation 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 chapter 68 of the laws
 3 of 2024, 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 chair-
 7 person, [sixteen] seventeen other voting members, and two non-voting and
 8 four alternate non-voting members, as described in subparagraph two of
 9 this paragraph appointed by the governor by and with the advice and
 10 consent of the senate. Any member appointed to a term commencing on or
 11 after June thirtieth, two thousand nine shall have experience in one or
 12 more of the following areas: transportation, public administration,
 13 business management, finance, accounting, law, engineering, land use,
 14 urban and 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] Five of the [sixteen] seventeen
 17 voting members, one member from each of New York city's five boroughs,
 18 as defined in section 2-202 of the administrative code of the city of
 19 New York, other than the chairperson shall be appointed on the written
 20 recommendation of the mayor of the city of New York; and each of seven
 21 other voting members other than the chairperson shall be appointed after
 22 selection from a written list of three recommendations from the chief
 23 executive officer of the county in which the particular member is
 24 required to reside pursuant to the provisions of this subdivision. Of
 25 the members appointed on recommendation of the chief executive officer

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04306-01-5

 S. 5908 2

 1 of a county, one such member shall be, at the time of appointment, a
 2 resident of the county of Nassau, one a resident of the county of
 3 Suffolk, one a resident of the county of Westchester, one a resident of
 4 the county of Dutchess, one a resident of the county of Orange, one a
 5 resident of the county of Putnam and one a resident of the county of
 6 Rockland, provided that the term of any member who is a resident of a
 7 county that has withdrawn from the metropolitan commuter transportation
 8 district pursuant to section twelve hundred seventy-nine-b of this title
 9 shall terminate upon the effective date of such county's withdrawal from
 10 such district. Of the five voting members, other than the chairperson,
 11 appointed by the governor without recommendation from any other person,
 12 three shall be, at the time of appointment, residents of the city of New
 13 York and two shall be, at the time of appointment, residents of such
 14 city or of any of the aforementioned counties in the metropolitan commu-
 15 ter transportation district. Provided however, notwithstanding the fore-
 16 going residency requirement, one of the five votin