assembly Bill A314

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Enacts the "New York city teleworking expansion act"

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A314 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5650
Law Section:
New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:
Add §12-140, NYC Ad Cd
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A695
2013-2014: A3524
2015-2016: A62
2017-2018: A1134, S7717
2021-2022: A457, S5536
2023-2024: A1435, S4580

A314 (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.

A314 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf


                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   314

                       2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2019
                               ___________

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