New York A 1213: Enacts the "New York city teleworking expansion act"

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A01213 Summary:

BILL NOA01213 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORRozic

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COSPNSRCarroll R, Colton, Cook, Dinowitz, Epstein, Fall, Forrest, Gallagher, Gonzalez-Rojas, Hevesi,
 Jackson, Mamdani, Mitaynes, Raga, Reyes, Seawright, Simon, Simone, Zinerman

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Add §12-143, NYC Ad Cd

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Enacts the "New York city teleworking expansion act"; provides that each agency shall establish a policy and program to allow employees to perform all or a portion of their duties through teleworking to the maximum extent possible without diminished employee performance; defines the term "telework" to mean to perform normal and regular work functions on a workday that ordinarily would be performed at the agency's principal location at a different location, thereby eliminating or substantially reducing the physical commute to and from such agency's principal location.

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BILL NOA01213 

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01/09/2025referred to cities

01/07/2026referred to cities

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There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1213

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 9, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC, R. CARROLL, COLTON, COOK, DINOWITZ,
 EPSTEIN, FALL, FORREST, GALLAGHER, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, HEVESI, JACKSON,
 MAMDANI, MITAYNES, RAGA, REYES, SEAWRIGHT, SIMON, SIMONE, ZINERMAN --
 read once and referred to the Committee on Cities

 AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
 relation to enacting the "New York city teleworking expansion act"

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

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "New York city teleworking expansion act".
 3 § 2. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby finds and declares
 4 that the health and safety of the population living in and around the
 5 densely populated New York city metropolitan region is a matter of state
 6 concern, as is the economic vitality and the effectiveness of mass tran-
 7 sit in that region, all of which are threatened by the amount of traffic
 8 congestion inside of, and into, New York city, and the overcrowded
 9 buses, subways and railroads within the region. Traffic congestion is
 10 particularly harmful to the mass transit bus systems run by the Metro-
 11 politan Transportation Authority, creating delays and hindering the
 12 growth of essential surface mass transportation systems, and the entire
 13 mass transit system suffers from severe overcrowding. The negative
 14 impact of traffic congestion in New York city on the health, economy and
 15 mass transit systems of the downstate region, as well as the overcrowd-
 16 ing of the region's mass transit systems, were established at legisla-
 17 tive hearings in the spring of 2007, as well as during the hearings and
 18 reports of the legislatively created New York City Traffic Mitigation
 19 Commission. During these hearings, it was established that a very large
 20 number of New York city employees drive to work both from points within
 21 New York city and without, that New York city lacks a working and
 22 adequate telecommuting program for its employees, and that an effective
 23 telecommuting program would significantly reduce the number of such

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03392-01-5

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 1 employees driving to work. Likewise, a telecommuting program for New
 2 York city employees would also allow employees who use mass transit to
 3 work from home, thereby alleviating the current overcrowding in the
 4 region's mass transit systems. Such a program as established by this
 5 legislation would address the state's concern that the health, safety,
 6 economic vitality and mass transit operations of the downstate region be
 7 preserved and protected.
 8 § 3. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended by
 9 adding a new section 12-143 to read as follows:
 10 § 12-143 Teleworking programs. a. As used in this section, the
 11 following terms shall have the