Assembly Bill A763

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires certain towns to promote jobs and conduct an equity audit

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A763 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
Towns

2025-A763 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires towns having a population of five hundred thousand persons or more to develop and implement a communications strategy to promote summer jobs, job fairs, workforce development training centers and information about civil service testing to town residents and to conduct an annual dialogue on race, equity and inclusion; requires the Town of Hempstead to track data over time and publish a report and to conduct DEI training.

2025-A763 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    763
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Local Governments
 
 AN ACT in relation to requiring the towns having a  population  of  five
   hundred thousand persons or more to promote jobs and conduct an equity
   audit

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. (a) Towns having a  population  of  five  hundred  thousand
 persons or more shall develop and implement a communications strategy to
 promote  summer  jobs, job fairs, workforce development training centers
 and information about civil  service  testing  to  town  residents.  The
 communications strategy will be implemented townwide with an emphasis on
 communities  with  the  following characteristics: minority and majority
 wards, low income and disproportionate crime rates and vacant buildings.
   (b) Such town shall host an annual dialogue on race, equity and inclu-
 sion for the town community.
   (c) Such town, in partnership with its departments, shall  track  data
 over  time  and  publish  a  report  on  an annual basis on key metrics,
 including but not limited to built environment enhancements; park  main-
 tenance,  violence  prevention,  workforce training employment; and town
 employment demographics. A report will be delivered to the town board on
 an annual basis, no later than December 21st of each year.
   (d) Such towns will ensure that  all  town  employees  receive  annual
 training on racial equity, diversity and inclusion.
   ยง 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00353-01-5

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