STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1251 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 11, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to establishing the terms of the members of the board of the New York state thruway authority The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 352 of the public authorities law, 2 as amended by chapter 766 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 1. (a) A board to be known as "New York state thruway authority" is 5 hereby created. Such board shall be a body corporate and politic consti- 6 tuting a public corporation. It shall consist of seven members appointed 7 by the governor by and with the advice and consent of the senate. [The 8 members first appointed shall serve for terms ending three, six and nine 9 years, respectively from January first next succeeding their appoint- 10 ment. Provided, however, that two board members first appointed on or 11 after the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand five 12 which amended this subdivision shall serve an initial term of two years; 13 provided further that two other board members first appointed on or 14 after the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand five 15 which amended this subdivision shall serve an initial term of three 16 years. Their successors shall be appointed for terms of nine years 17 each.] A member to be designated as chairman in his or her appointment 18 as a member shall be chairman of such board until his or her term as 19 member expires. The chairman and the other members shall serve without 20 salary or other compensation, but shall be entitled to reimbursement for 21 their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their 22 official duties. 23 (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or the provisions of 24 any appointment by a governor, the terms of all members serving as such EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02045-01-7

A. 1251 2 1 on March thirty-first, two thousand seventeen, or on the effective date 2 of this paragraph, whichever date is later, shall immediately terminate 3 except that such members shall continue to serve until their successors 4 are appointed and have qualified. 5 (c) Two members of the board appointed on or after April first, two 6 thousand seventeen, shall be appointed to terms of three years; two 7 other members of the board shall be appointed to terms of four years; 8 and three members of the board shall be appointed to terms of five 9 years, provided, however, that such members shall continue to serve 10 after the end of their terms until their successors are appointed and 11 have qualified, and provided further that notwithstanding the term to 12 which any such member shall have been appointed, the term of each member 13 then serving shall terminate on the sixtieth day after the inauguration 14 of a governor other than the one that originally appointed such member 15 unless such new governor shall order the continuation of the term of 16 such member. Such a continuation of the term of a member shall not 17 require confirmation by the senate. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.