New York Assembly Bill A00863 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 863 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor AN ACT requiring the department of labor to conduct a study on the impact of job automation on the workforce in New York state and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The commissioner of labor shall conduct a comprehensive 2 study analyzing the impact of job automation on the workforce in New 3 York state and publish a report on such findings. 4 § 2. Such report shall include, but not be limited to, the following 5 information: 6 (a) the current trends of emerging technologies in New York state, and 7 the types of emerging technologies that may lead to job automation; 8 (b) the particular occupations and industries to be affected, and the 9 estimated number of jobs that may be lost within such occupations and 10 industries; 11 (c) the economic impact of job automation on different regions of the 12 state and the state as a whole; 13 (d) the effect of job automation on various demographic groups within 14 the state, including, but not limited to, age, race, sex, and income; 15 (e) strategies to re-train affected employees for participation in the 16 workforce; and 17 (f) any additional information the commissioner of labor deems perti- 18 nent for the purposes of this act. 19 § 3. For the purposes of this act, the commissioner of labor may 20 conduct such study in conjunction with any other department, division, 21 board, bureau, commission, agency, or public authority of the state 22 deemed necessary. To the maximum extent feasible, such commissioner 23 shall be authorized to request, receive, and utilize such resources and EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03122-01-5 
 A. 863 2 1 data of any other department, division, board, bureau, commission, agen- 2 cy, or public authority of the state as such commissioner may reasonably 3 request to properly carry out such commissioner's powers and duties 4 pursuant to this act. 5 § 4. The commissioner of labor shall publish such report to the gover- 6 nor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, 7 the chair of the senate committee on labor and the chair of the assembly 8 committee on labor no later than December 31, 2026. 9 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be 10 deemed repealed January 1, 2027.