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S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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754
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
(PREFILED)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to the membership of
the Republic airport commission
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 402 of the transportation
law, as amended by a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the transpor-
tation law relating to the membership of the Republic airport commis-
sion, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 9475 and A. 10336, are
amended to read as follows:
1. Upon assumption by the department of transportation of jurisdiction
over the airport facility and surrounding area located in the county of
Suffolk, known as Republic airport, there shall thereupon be created a
Republic airport commission. This commission will be an advisory coun-
cil to the commissioner with respect to administration and management of
the Republic airport facilities and its surrounding areas with respect
to projects to be undertaken and operations and management of the facil-
ities at such airport. The commission shall be composed of nine members
who are residents of Nassau county or Suffolk county, one of whom shall
be appointed by the governor without recommendation from any other
person, four of whom shall be appointed by the governor upon the recom-
mendation of the temporary president of the senate, and four of whom
shall be appointed by the governor upon the recommendation of the speak-
er of the assembly. FOR EACH APPOINTMENT UPON A RECOMMENDATION, THE
RECOMMENDER SHALL SUBMIT A LIST OF NO FEWER THAN THREE PERSONS, FROM
WHICH THE GOVERNOR SHALL APPOINT ONE. All such members shall be
appointed for a term of four years, except in the case that a vacancy
occurs and is filled before the expiration of a member's term, the
member appointed to fill such vacancy shall be appointed to the remain-
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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der of such term. By virtue of such commissioner's office, the commis-
sioner of transportation or the commissioner's designee shall be an ex
officio member of the commission. All such members shall be deemed
officers of the state in connection with the provisions of section
seventeen of the public officers law. The members of the commission
shall appoint a chair from among their number. Members shall not receive
a salary or other compensation, but shall be reimbursed for their actual
and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official
duties.
2. The Republic airport commission shall assist in the development of
a program relative to the administration and management of the Republic
airport and to advise the commissioner of transportation with regard to
such other programs relative to the Republic airport as [he] THE COMMIS-
SIONER may undertake. Such program shall include, but not be limited to
identification of future capital needs, examining the means and methods
of financing such future capital needs, the promotion and examination of
the financing means and methods for the economic development of the area
around the airport, the joining together of such economic development
and the airport operations, the identification and implementation of
ways of working with the local community to accomplish the program and
the identification of non-aviation uses and purposes and prorations of
use or purposes for determinations of in lieu of tax payments. Once the
commission has been established, the commissioner and/or the department
shall effectuate the authorizations, powers and/or duties set forth in
section four hundred of this article only following the consultation,
guidance, advice and assistance of the commission. The Republic airport
commission shall meet at least six times a year at the call of the
commissioner of transportation or the chair of the commission and shall
keep a record of all its proceedings and recommendations. Staff services
for the commission shall be performed by personnel of the department of
transportation. In carrying out the functions and responsibilities of
the commissioner and the commission, the commissioner shall designate an
executive secretary from among the staff of the department of transpor-
tation who will act as the administrative agent of the commission and
assist the commission in fulfilling its duties and functions.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
manner as a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the transportation law
relating to the membership of the Republic airport commission, as
proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 9475 and A. 10336, takes
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