STATE OF NEW YORK
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863
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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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.
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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.
