The proposed legislation, The New York State Teleworking Expansion Act [Assembly 4850], would amend the New York State Civil Service Law to provide that "each state agency [as defined in §13.2 of the bill] shall establish a policy and program to allow employees to perform all or a portion of their duties through teleworking to the maximum extent possible without diminished employee performance" except that with respect to employees in a collective bargaining unit such policy and, or, program shall be subject to collective bargaining as otherwise provided by Article 14 of the Civil Service Law.
The bill has been referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees.
The text of Assembly 4850 is set out below:
STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________ 4850
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 6, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC, COLTON, SIMON, ROSENTHAL, LUPARDO,
FORREST, BRONSON, SANTABARBARA, MAMDANI, BORES, FALL, KELLES, SIMONE,
SEAWRIGHT, ALVAREZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to enacting the "New
York state teleworking expansion act"
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
2 the "New York state teleworking expansion act".
3 § 2. The civil service law is amended by adding a new section 13 to
4 read as follows:
5 § 13. Teleworking programs. 1. Each state agency shall establish a
6 policy and program to allow employees to perform all or a portion of
7 their duties through teleworking to the maximum extent possible without
8 diminished employee performance. Each state agency shall designate a
9 "telework coordinator" to be responsible for overseeing the implementa-
10 tion of teleworking programs.
11 2. For the purposes of this section, the term:
12 (a) "telework" shall mean to perform normal and regular work functions
13 on a workday that ordinarily would be performed at the state agency's
14 principal location at a different location, thereby eliminating or
15 substantially reducing the physical commute to and from such state agen-
16 cy's principal location; and
17 (b) "state agency" shall mean any state department, board, bureau,
18 division, commission, committee, public authority, public benefit corpo-
19 ration, council, office, or other governmental entity performing a
20 governmental or proprietary function for the state.
21 3. No agency shall establish a policy pursuant to this section for any
22 employee that is subject to a collective bargaining agreement unless
23 such policy has been mutually agreed to between the agency and the
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1 employee organization that is certified or recognized to represent such
2 employees, within the meaning of article fourteen of this chapter,
3 pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement.
4 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
5 have become a law.EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.