STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1396 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 9, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. EACHUS, DINOWITZ, KELLES, COLTON, ALVAREZ, STIRPE, RAMOS, REYES, BURDICK, TAYLOR, WALKER, JACKSON, CUNNINGHAM, SIMON, SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to preventing outsourcing during a hiring freeze 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 66 2 to read as follows: 3 § 66. Hiring freeze. Upon the enactment of a hiring freeze, no agency, 4 department, division, commission, bureau or any other entity under the 5 authority of the executive department shall contract, subcontract or 6 hire any third party to perform services that would otherwise be carried 7 out by an employee whose terms of employment are subject to a collective 8 bargaining agreement or other analogous contract and who is subject to 9 such hiring freeze. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03434-01-5