Bill Text: NY A07127 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-22 - print number 7127b [A07127 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07127-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7127
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     April 10, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. ROZIC -- 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,
     6  pursuant  to a collective bargaining agreement or other binding arrange-
     7  ment with its employees, a policy and  program  to  allow  employees  to
     8  perform  all  or  a  portion of their duties  through teleworking to the
     9  maximum extent possible without diminished   employee performance.  Each
    10  state agency shall designate a "telework  coordinator" to be responsible
    11  for overseeing the implementation of teleworking programs.
    12    2. For the purposes of this section, the term:
    13    (a) "telework" shall mean to perform normal and regular work functions
    14  on  a  workday that ordinarily would be performed at the state  agency's
    15  principal location at  a  different  location,  thereby  eliminating  or
    16  substantially reducing the physical commute to and from such state agen-
    17  cy's principal location; and
    18    (b)  "state  agency"  shall  mean any state department, board, bureau,
    19  division, commission, committee, public authority, public benefit corpo-
    20  ration, council, office,  or  other  governmental  entity  performing  a
    21  governmental or proprietary function for the state.
    22    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    23  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10251-02-9