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S04734 Summary:

BILL NOS04734 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORSEPULVEDA

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §296-e, amd §§295 & 292, Exec L

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Relates to requiring certain employers to provide workforce demographics and equity measurements to the division of human rights annually, including each employee's race, ethnicity, age, and sex or gender identity or expression, as well as the employee's job category, date of hire, salary or wages, training received, raises, promotions, disciplinary actions, terminations and benefits, including but not limited to unpaid benefits or privileges such as flexible scheduling, the ability to work from home, or the ability to bring children to work.

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BILL NOS04734 

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02/12/2025REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

01/07/2026REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4734

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 12, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
 ment Operations

 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring certain
 employers to provide workforce demographics and equity measurements to
 the division of human rights annually

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

 1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 296-e
 2 to read as follows:
 3 § 296-e. Workforce demographics and equity measurements. 1. Any
 4 employer with greater than one hundred persons in employ per calendar
 5 year or who bids, applies, is awarded or receives any combination of
 6 state or municipal contracts or grant funds directly or indirectly in
 7 excess of fifty thousand dollars per calendar year shall file an annual
 8 report documenting employee demographics and equity measurements with
 9 the division. Such demographic data shall include each employee's race,
 10 ethnicity, age, and sex or gender identity or expression. The equity
 11 measurements shall include each employee's job category, date of hire,
 12 salary or wages, training received, raises, promotions, disciplinary
 13 actions, terminations and benefits, including but not limited to unpaid
 14 benefits or privileges such as flexible scheduling, the ability to work
 15 from home, or the ability to bring children to work.
 16 2. The division shall develop electronic reporting forms to be filed
 17 for each employee's data and for the employer's general data.
 18 3. The division shall aggregate the electronic forms into a report
 19 that lists equity measurements for each employer including but not
 20 limited to job category, mean and median earnings, benefits, hiring
 21 selection, training, raises, promotions, disciplinary actions, and
 22 terminations listed in the form of percentages from highest to lowest by
 23 the demographic factors listed above.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08312-01-5

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 1 4. The division shall provide the aggregated report to each employer
 2 along with a simplified report in plain language. The employer shall
 3 provide such simplified report in plain language to each current employ-
 4 ee and any former employee employed during the reporting year. The
 5 report shall be accompanied by a summary in plain language of employees'
 6 rights under Title VII Civil Rights Act Title of 1964, this article, and
 7 any applicable local statutes for which the employer falls under juris-
 8 diction including instructions and deadlines for filing a complaint to
 9 the equal employment opportunity commission, the division, and any other
 10 fair employment protection agency or similarly tasked authority with
 11 jurisdiction over the employer. The employer shall make the aggregated
 12 report available to the public upon request.
 13 5. The division shall aggregate all data on a statewide level and
 14 provi