Negotiate The Future


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          11175

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 1, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Employees

        AN ACT to amend the civil  service  law,  in  relation  to  notification
          requirements  of  public  employers  regarding intentions to begin any
          procurement process or plan to acquire or deploy any  new  application
          or  technology that utilizes an artificial intelligence model or arti-
          ficial intelligence system

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

     1    Section  1.  The  civil service law is amended by adding a new section
     2  216 to read as follows:
     3    § 216. Notification requirements of public employers. 1.  Definitions.
     4  As  used  in  this section, the following terms shall have the following
     5  meanings:
     6    (a) "Plan to acquire or deploy" shall  mean  any  public  notification
     7  advanced  by a public employer on the subject of the procurement, acqui-
     8  sition or deployment of any new technology or application that  utilizes
     9  an artificial intelligence model, as defined by section fourteen hundred
    10  twenty  of  the  general  business  law,  or  an artificial intelligence
    11  system, as defined by section one hundred three-e of the state technolo-
    12  gy law.
    13    (b) "Procurement process" shall mean any of the following:
    14    (i) a request for information;
    15    (ii) a request for proposal;
    16    (iii) a request for quotation; or
    17    (iv) any request initiated by a public employer that  is  intended  to
    18  begin the process of procuring, acquiring or deploying any new technolo-
    19  gy  or  application  that  utilizes an artificial intelligence model, as
    20  defined by section fourteen hundred twenty of the general  business  law
    21  or  an artificial intelligence system, as defined by section one hundred
    22  three-e of the state technology law.
    23    (c) "Public employer" shall mean any of the following employers:
    24    (i) the state of New York;
    25    (ii) a county, city, town or village;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (iii) a municipal public library, school  district  library  or  joint
     2  school district public library, special district public library, consol-
     3  idated  district public library, or a library eligible to participate in
     4  a state public retirement system;
     5    (iv)  a  school  district,  board of cooperative educational services,
     6  vocational education and extension board or a school district enumerated
     7  in section one of chapter five hundred sixty-six of the laws of nineteen
     8  hundred sixty-seven as amended;
     9    (v) the State University of New York;
    10    (vi) the City University of New York; or
    11    (vii) a community college.
    12    2. Notification required. (a) A public employer shall notify any  duly
    13  recognized  and  certified  employee  representative of its intention to
    14  begin any procurement process or plan  to  acquire  or  deploy  any  new
    15  application  or  technology  that  utilizes  an  artificial intelligence
    16  model, as defined by section fourteen  hundred  twenty  of  the  general
    17  business  law,  or  an  artificial  intelligence  system,  as defined by
    18  section one hundred three-e of the state technology law,  no  less  than
    19  twelve months before commencing the process, plan, or deployment.
    20    (b)  The  notification  required  by paragraph (a) of this subdivision
    21  shall apply to any new application or technology that utilizes an  arti-
    22  ficial intelligence model, as defined by section fourteen hundred twenty
    23  of  the  general  business law, or an artificial intelligence system, as
    24  defined by section one hundred three-e of the state technology law, that
    25  does any of the following:
    26    (i) changes or introduces new products, services, or  types  of  oper-
    27  ations  that  affect  the  nature of work or require job training of the
    28  workforce to which such new products, services, or types  of  operations
    29  will apply; or
    30    (ii)  eliminates  job functions or jobs of the workforce to which such
    31  new products, services, or types of operations will apply.
    32    (c) The notification required by paragraph  (a)  of  this  subdivision
    33  shall include the following information:
    34    (i) a comprehensive analysis of the effects of new products, services,
    35  or  types  of  operations  on  workers, including workers who may not be
    36  adequately skilled in their use or may be fully or  partially  displaced
    37  by such new products, services, or types of operations;
    38    (ii)  the  potential  gaps  in  skills  that  may  result from the new
    39  products, services, or types of operations on the workers to which  such
    40  new products, services, or types of operations will apply; and
    41    (iii) the total amount budgeted for, and descriptions of, training and
    42  retraining programs for affected workers.
    43    3. Collective bargaining required. Following the notification provided
    44  under subdivision two of this section, a public employer shall engage in
    45  collective  bargaining  with  any affected duly recognized and certified
    46  employee representative on the following subjects:
    47    (a) acquiring or developing the new product or service;
    48    (b) implementing the new product or service;
    49    (c) creating a transition plan for affected workers; and
    50    (d) creating plans to train and prepare the affected workforce to fill
    51  new positions created by a new service or product.
    52    4. Construction. Nothing in this section shall be construed or  inter-
    53  preted  as  diminishing  any  employment  rights, benefits or privileges
    54  conferred pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement or  any  employ-
    55  ment  rights,  benefits or privileges conferred in any existing statute,
    56  rule or regulation.
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     1    § 2. Severability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivi-
     2  sion, section or part of this act shall be  adjudged  by  any  court  of
     3  competent  jurisdiction  to  be invalid, such judgment shall not affect,
     4  impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall  be  confined  in
     5  its  operation  to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section
     6  or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judg-
     7  ment shall have been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of
     8  the legislature that this act would  have  been  enacted  even  if  such
     9  invalid provisions had not been included herein.
    10    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    11  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that if chapter 96 of the
    12  laws  of  2026  shall  not have taken effect on or before such date then
    13  this act shall take effect on the same date and in the  same  manner  as
    14  such  chapter  of  the laws of 2026 takes effect. Effective immediately,
    15  the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or  regulation  neces-
    16  sary  for  the  implementation  of  this  act  on its effective date are
    17  authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.