Requires the department of labor to study the long-term impact of artificial intelligence on the state workforce including but not limited to job performance, productivity, training, education requirements, privacy and security; prohibits any state entity from using artificial intelligence in any way that would result in the displacement of any currently employed worker or loss of position, including partial displacement such as a reduction in the hours of non-overtime work, wages or employment benefits, or results in the impairment of existing collective bargaining agreements.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4550--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. CUNNINGHAM -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Labor -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring the department
of labor to study the long-term impact of artificial intelligence on
the state workforce; and providing for the repeal of such provisions
upon the expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 12-a to
2 read as follows:
3 § 12-a. Study on the long-term impact of artificial intelligence on
4 the state workforce. 1. No later than six months after the effective
5 date of this section, the department, in consultation with the depart-
6 ment of civil service and the office of information technology services,
7 shall begin a study on the long-term impact of artificial intelligence
8 on the state workforce including but not limited to job performance,
9 productivity, training, education requirements, privacy and security.
10 The department shall issue an interim report on its current findings and
11 recommendations for legislative action every five years and shall issue
12 a final report and recommendations for legislative action no later than
13 December thirty-first, two thousand thirty-four. The department shall
14 issue its reports and recommendations to the governor, the speaker of
15 the assembly, the minority leader of the assembly, the temporary presi-
16 dent of the senate, and the minority leader of the senate.
17 2. Until the final report and recommendations are received pursuant to
18 subdivision one of this section, every state department, board, bureau,
19 division, commission, committee, public authority, public corporation,
20 council, office or other governmental entity performing a governmental
21 or proprietary function for the state shall be prohibited from using
22 artificial intelligence in any way that shall result in the displacement
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 of any currently employed worker or loss of position, including partial
2 displacement such as a reduction in the hours of non-overtime work,
3 wages or employment benefits, or results in the impairment of existing
4 collective bargaining agreements.
5 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
6 deemed repealed January 1, 2035.
