Assembly Bill A9720

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   9720
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 2, 2018
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 Introduced  by M. of A. MORELLE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT in relation to the establishment of the New York  task  force  on
   automation technology; and providing for the repeal of such provisions
   upon the expiration thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Legislative findings. The Legislature finds that  workplace
 automation,  robotics  and  artificial  intelligence  are  impacting the
 state's workforce in an unprecedented fashion. While this influence  has
 created both anxiety and anticipation, its true effects on the health of
 our  economy  are  largely  unknown. Consequently, the legislature finds
 that there is a pressing need for policymakers to study  this  phenomena
 and  formulate achievable goals for state government to meet in order to
 help prepare the state's workplace to succeed in a  future  where  auto-
 mation  technology  plays an ever increasing role in shaping the economy
 and society.
   To this end, it is in the public interest to establish  a  task  force
 that  shall  study,  evaluate  and  develop  recommendations relating to
 specific actionable measures that address how automation technology will
 transform the state's economy, education system, and  society;  and  how
 such  technology  will  impact  the  State's workforce and influence the
 State's taxation policy over the coming decades.
   § 2. A fifteen-member New York State Task Force on Automation Technol-
 ogy is hereby established. The  task  force  shall  consist  of  fifteen
 members  with  demonstrated  expertise in issues relating to the work of
 the task force, to be appointed as follows:
   (a) six members appointed by the governor that  should  encompass  but
 not  be  limited  to the topic areas of labor, transportation, education
 and tax policy; one of such members shall serve as  chairperson  of  the
 task force.
   (b) two members appointed by the temporary president of the senate;
   (c) two members appointed by the speaker of the assembly;
   (d) one member appointed by the senate minority leader;

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   (e) one member appointed by the assembly minority leader;
   (f)  one member appointed by the Chancellor of the State University of
 New York, such member shall be a member of the economics  faculty  at  a
 State University of New York campus;
   (g) one member appointed by the President of AFL-CIO; and
   (h) one member appointed by the New York State Business Council
   All  appointments  shall be made no later than the thirtieth day after
 the effective date of this section. Vacancies in the membership  of  the
 task  force  shall  be  filled  in  the  same manner provided for by the
 original appointments. The task force shall organize as soon as  practi-
 cable  following the appointment of its members and shall select a vice-
 chairperson from among the members.  The  chairperson  shall  appoint  a
 secretary  who  shall  not be a member of the task force. The members of
 the task force shall receive no compensation  for  their  services,  but
 shall  be  allowed  their  actual and necessary expenses incurred in the
 performance of their duties.
   § 3. The task force shall study, evaluate and develop  recommendations
 relating  to  specific  actionable  measures that address how automation
 technology will transform the state's  economy,  education  system,  and
 society;  and  how such technology will impact the State's workforce and
 influence the State's taxation policy of the coming decades.
   To the maximum extent feasible, the task force shall  be  entitled  to
 request and receive, and shall utilize and be provided with such facili-
 ties,  resources  and  data  of  any court, department, division, board,
 bureau, commission or agency of the State or any  political  subdivision
 thereof  as  it  may reasonably request to properly carry out its powers
 and duties.
   The task force shall report its findings and  recommendations  to  the
 governor,  the  temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the
 assembly on or before January first, two thousand nineteen.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
 deemed repealed 2 years after such date.