File #: Int 1099-2024    Version: * Name: Requiring reporting on the impact of algorithmic tools on city employees and changes in employment responsibilities due to algorithmic tools.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Technology
On agenda: 10/23/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring reporting on the impact of algorithmic tools on city employees and changes in employment responsibilities due to algorithmic tools
Sponsors: Keith Powers , Carmen N. De La Rosa, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Shahana K. Hanif, Nantasha M. Williams, Justin L. Brannan
Council Member Sponsors: 6
Summary: This bill would add to the annual algorithmic tools compliance report to require agencies to report on the impacts of algorithmic tools on city employees and employment responsibilities. Specifically it would require the city to report on the number of employees whose employment status have been impacted by the use of such tool; including the number funded agency positions eliminated due to the use of such tool, the number of funded agency positions for which there was any displacement, the number of salaries changed due to changes in responsibility due to use of such tool, and the number of city employees who were required to undertake any new trainings due to the use of an algorithmic tool.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1099, 2. Int. No. 1099, 3. October 23, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 10-23-24, 5. Committee Report 10/28/24, 6. Hearing Testimony 10/28/24, 7. Hearing Transcript 10/28/24

Int. No. 1099

 

By Council Members Powers, De La Rosa, Gutiérrez, Hanif, Williams and Brannan

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring reporting on the impact of algorithmic tools on city employees and changes in employment responsibilities due to algorithmic tools

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subdivision c of section 3-119.5 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 35 for the year 2022, is amended to read as follows:

c. Each agency shall provide the following information about each algorithmic tool reported pursuant to subdivision b of this section:

1. The name or commercial name, and a brief description of such algorithmic tool;

2. The purpose for which the agency is using such an algorithmic tool;

3. The type of data collected or analyzed by the algorithmic tool and the source of such data;

4. A description of how the information received from such algorithmic tool is used;

5. Whether a vendor or contractor was involved in the development or ongoing use of the algorithmic tool, a description of such involvement, and the name of such vendor or contractor when feasible; [and]

6. The month and year in which such algorithmic tool began to be used, if known; and

7. The number of city employees, disaggregated by agency and title, whose employment status was impacted by the use of such tool, including but not limited to:

(a) The number of funded agency positions eliminated due to the use of such tool;

(b) The number of funded agency positions for which there was a partial displacement, such as a reduction in hours of non-overtime work, due to the use of such tool;

(c) The number of salaries reduced due to changes in responsibility due to the use of such tool;

(d) The number of salaries increased due to changes in responsibility due to the use of such tool; and

(e) The number of city employees who were required to undertake any new trainings due to the use of such tool and a description of such trainings.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

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10/4/2024