Assembly Bill A9885

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   9885
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 19, 2022
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. CRUZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Labor
 
 AN ACT creating "The Commission to Study the Impact  of  Automation  and
   Artificial  Intelligence  on  the New York Labor Force"; and providing
   for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. A state commission, to be known as The Commission to Study
 the Impact of Automation and Artificial Intelligence  on  the  New  York
 Labor  Force  (hereinafter  "commission"),  is hereby created within and
 staffed by the department of labor to study and make  determinations  on
 issues including but not limited to:
   (a) current law within this state addressing automation and artificial
 intelligence;
   (b) comparative state policies that have aided in creating a regulato-
 ry  structure  for  automation  and artificial intelligence, and whether
 such measures would be similarly effective in this state;
   (c) the impact of the growing rate of  deployment  of  automation  and
 artificial  intelligence on jobs, employment, unemployment and permanent
 displacement of workers;
   (d) the impact of automation and artificial intelligence on wages, job
 opportunities for workers entering the labor market  and  older  workers
 broken  down by employment sector, age of group, gender, race, ethnicity
 and geographic location;
   (e) the overall impact of the use of automation and artificial  intel-
 ligence on permanent worker displacement and the role the state's worker
 training  and  education  programs  in higher learning must undertake to
 ensure displaced workers are retrained if possible;
   (f) the impact of permanent displacement of workers by automation  and
 artificial  intelligence  on  the  New  York economy and social services
 safety net; and
   (g) the impact of modifying the corporate tax structure  to  implement
 an  automation and artificial intelligence tax that will fund the social
 and economic needs of permanently displaced workers.

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

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   § 2. The commission shall work in collaboration with  stakeholders  in
 workforce  development  in  the  state  university of New York, the City
 University of New York and the department of education as well as repre-
 sentatives of the business sector.
   § 3. The commission shall consist of eleven members to be appointed as
 follows: five shall be appointed by the governor; two shall be appointed
 by  the temporary president of the senate and one by the minority leader
 of the senate; and two shall be appointed by the speaker of the assembly
 and one by the minority leader of  the  assembly.  The  members  of  the
 commission  shall  serve  at  the  pleasure  of  the official making the
 appointment of such member. Vacancies in the membership of  the  commis-
 sion  shall  be filled in the manner provided for original appointments.
 Membership on the commission shall not constitute a public  office.  The
 chairperson  shall  be  the commissioner of labor or his or her delegate
 and a vice-chairperson of the commission shall be elected by a  majority
 of its members, all members being present. The members of the commission
 shall  be selected and the commissioner shall have elected a vice-chair-
 person no later than the ninetieth day after the effective date of  this
 act.
   §  4.  The members of the commission shall receive no compensation for
 their services, but shall be allowed their actual and necessary expenses
 incurred in the performance of their duties pursuant to this act.
   § 5. The commission may conduct  any  hearings  or  take  any  written
 testimony  as  it deems necessary, and shall take all other steps neces-
 sary to provide a  thorough  analysis  of  all  issues  related  to  the
 provisions listed in section one of this act.
   §  6. The commission shall issue a final report no later than one year
 after the effective date of this act with  recommendations  on  how  New
 York  should  prepare  for workplace and workforce disruptions caused by
 the increasing rate of deployment of artificial intelligence  and  auto-
 mation.  The  commission  shall  issue  its  report to the governor, the
 speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the assembly, the tempo-
 rary president of the senate, and the minority leader of the senate.
   § 7. This act shall take effect immediately and shall  expire  and  be
 deemed repealed 2 years after such effective date.