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

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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-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7127--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 10, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. ROZIC, COLTON -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Employees -- recommitted to the Committee on
          Governmental Employees in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec.  2  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee

        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.  Nothing  set  forth  in this section shall be construed to impede,
    22  infringe or diminish the rights and benefits that  accrue  to  employees

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  and  employers  through  collective  bargaining  agreements or otherwise
     2  diminish the integrity of the collective bargaining relationship.
     3    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     4  have become a law.