Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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May 23, 2022 |
print number 457a |
May 23, 2022 |
amend and recommit to cities |
Jan 05, 2022 |
referred to cities |
Jan 06, 2021 |
referred to cities |
Assembly Bill A457A
2021-2022 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
ROZIC
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Bill Amendments
co-Sponsors
Jo Anne Simon
Richard Gottfried
Phara Souffrant Forrest
Rebecca Seawright
2021-A457 - Details
- See Senate Version of this Bill:
- S5536
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Cities
- Law Section:
- New York City Administrative Code
- Laws Affected:
- Add §12-141, NYC Ad Cd
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2011-2012:
A695
2013-2014: A3524
2015-2016: A62
2017-2018: A1134, S7717
2019-2020: A314, S5650
2023-2024: A1435, S4580
2021-A457 - Summary
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.
2021-A457 - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 457 2021-2022 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y (PREFILED) January 6, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC -- 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: Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New York city teleworking expansion act". § 2. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby finds and declares that the health and safety of the population living in and around the densely populated New York city metropolitan region is a matter of state concern, as is the economic vitality and the effectiveness of mass tran- sit in that region, all of which are threatened by the amount of traffic congestion inside of, and into, New York city, and the overcrowded buses, subways and railroads within the region. Traffic congestion is particularly harmful to the mass transit bus systems run by the Metro- politan Transportation Authority, creating delays and hindering the growth of essential surface mass transportation systems, and the entire mass transit system suffers from severe overcrowding. The negative impact of traffic congestion in New York city on the health, economy and mass transit systems of the downstate region, as well as the overcrowd- ing of the region's mass transit systems, were established at legisla- tive hearings in the spring of 2007, as well as during the hearings and reports of the legislatively created New York City Traffic Mitigation Commission. During these hearings, it was established that a very large number of New York city employees drive to work both from points within New York city and without, that New York city lacks a working and adequate telecommuting program for its employees, and that an effective telecommuting program would significantly reduce the number of such employees driving to work. Likewise, a telecommuting program for New EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
co-Sponsors
Jo Anne Simon
Richard Gottfried
Phara Souffrant Forrest
Rebecca Seawright
2021-A457A (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Senate Version of this Bill:
- S5536
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Cities
- Law Section:
- New York City Administrative Code
- Laws Affected:
- Add §12-141, NYC Ad Cd
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
-
2011-2012:
A695
2013-2014: A3524
2015-2016: A62
2017-2018: A1134, S7717
2019-2020: A314, S5650
2023-2024: A1435, S4580
2021-A457A (ACTIVE) - Summary
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.
2021-A457A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 457--A 2021-2022 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y (PREFILED) January 6, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC, SIMON, GOTTFRIED, FORREST, SEAWRIGHT, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, EPSTEIN, MAMDANI, GALLAGHER, COLTON, ZINERMAN, McDO- NALD, NIOU, COOK, REYES, BURGOS, BARNWELL, MITAYNES, JACKSON, FERNAN- DEZ, CARROLL, HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Cities -- recommitted to the Committee on Cities in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee 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: Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "New York city teleworking expansion act". § 2. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby finds and declares that the health and safety of the population living in and around the densely populated New York city metropolitan region is a matter of state concern, as is the economic vitality and the effectiveness of mass tran- sit in that region, all of which are threatened by the amount of traffic congestion inside of, and into, New York city, and the overcrowded buses, subways and railroads within the region. Traffic congestion is particularly harmful to the mass transit bus systems run by the Metro- politan Transportation Authority, creating delays and hindering the growth of essential surface mass transportation systems, and the entire mass transit system suffers from severe overcrowding. The negative impact of traffic congestion in New York city on the health, economy and mass transit systems of the downstate region, as well as the overcrowd- ing of the region's mass transit systems, were established at legisla- tive hearings in the spring of 2007, as well as during the hearings and reports of the legislatively created New York City Traffic Mitigation Commission. During these hearings, it was established that a very large EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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