New York S 7027: Adds an additional two non-voting members to the metropolitan transportation authority board who represent the police force of such authority

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S07027 Summary:

BILL NOS07027 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORCHAN

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COSPNSRMATTERA, PALUMBO, ROLISON

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §1263, Pub Auth L

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Adds an additional two non-voting members to the metropolitan transportation authority board, one who is the police chief of the MTA police department and the other who is chosen by the labor organization representing the majority of employees of the police department of the authority.

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BILL NOS07027 

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03/28/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7027

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 28, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. CHAN -- 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 adding an
 additional two non-voting members to the metropolitan transportation
 authority board who represent the police force of such authority

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

 1 Section 1. Subparagraphs 1 and 2 of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of
 2 section 1263 of the public authorities law, subparagraph 1 as amended by
 3 chapter 68 and subparagraph 2 as amended by chapter 631 of the laws of
 4 2024, are amended to read as follows:
 5 (1) There is hereby created the "metropolitan transportation authori-
 6 ty." The authority shall be a body corporate and politic constituting a
 7 public benefit corporation. The authority shall consist of a chair-
 8 person, sixteen other voting members, and [two] four non-voting and four
 9 alternate non-voting members, as described in subparagraph two of this
 10 paragraph appointed by the governor by and with the advice and consent
 11 of the senate. Any member appointed to a term commencing on or after
 12 June thirtieth, two thousand nine shall have experience in one or more
 13 of the following areas: transportation, public administration, business
 14 management, finance, accounting, law, engineering, land use, urban and
 15 regional planning, management of large capital projects, labor
 16 relations, public safety, or have experience in some other area of
 17 activity central to the mission of the authority. Four of the sixteen
 18 voting members other than the chairperson shall be appointed on the
 19 written recommendation of the mayor of the city of New York; and each of
 20 seven other voting members other than the chairperson shall be appointed
 21 after selection from a written list of three recommendations from the
 22 chief executive officer of the county in which the particular member is
 23 required to reside pursuant to the provisions of this subdivision. Of
 24 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.
 LBD07091-01-5

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 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