Bill Text: NY A00464 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Enacts the "New York state teleworking expansion act"; provides that each state 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-01-12 - REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS [A00464 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00464-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           464

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROZIC,  COLTON, ENGLEBRIGHT, SIMON, GRIFFIN,
          BARRON, WOERNER, LUPARDO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of  A.  FAHY  --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees

        AN  ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to enacting the "New
          York state teleworking expansion act"

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  the "New York state teleworking expansion act".
     3    § 2. The civil service law is amended by adding a new  section  13  to
     4  read as follows:
     5    §  13.  Teleworking programs.   1. Each state agency shall establish a
     6  policy and program to allow employees to perform all  or  a  portion  of
     7  their duties  through teleworking to the maximum extent possible without
     8  diminished    employee  performance. Each state agency shall designate a
     9  "telework  coordinator" to be responsible for overseeing the implementa-
    10  tion of teleworking programs.
    11    2. For the purposes of this section, the term:
    12    (a) "telework" shall mean to perform normal and regular work functions
    13  on a workday that ordinarily would be performed at the state    agency's
    14  principal  location  at  a  different  location,  thereby eliminating or
    15  substantially reducing the physical commute to and from such state agen-
    16  cy's principal location; and
    17    (b) "state agency" shall mean any  state  department,  board,  bureau,
    18  division, commission, committee, public authority, public benefit corpo-
    19  ration,  council,  office,  or  other  governmental  entity performing a
    20  governmental or proprietary function for the state.
    21    3. No agency shall establish a policy pursuant to this section for any
    22  employee that is subject to a  collective  bargaining  agreement  unless
    23  such  policy  has  been  mutually  agreed  to between the agency and the

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00986-01-1

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     1  employee organization that is certified or recognized to represent  such
     2  employees,  within  the  meaning  of  article  fourteen of this chapter,
     3  pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement.
     4    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     5  have become a law.
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