Requires state-level public employers that intend to begin any procurement process or plan to acquire or deploy any new application or technology that utilizes an artificial intelligence model or artificial intelligence system to notify any duly recognized and certified employee representative of such intention no less than twelve months before commencing such process.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10025
IN SENATE
April 23, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
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.
