File #: Int 1340-2025    Version: * Name: Interagency taskforce and reporting on a gendered impact assessment of artificial intelligence.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Technology
On agenda: 7/14/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to an interagency taskforce and reporting on a gendered impact assessment of artificial intelligence
Sponsors: Farah N. Louis
Council Member Sponsors: 1
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DOITT) to conduct a gendered impact assessment every two years for certain algorithmic tools used by city agencies. In consultation with labor organizations, gender equity experts, and affected communities, DOITT must evaluate whether the use of gender in these tools may lead to disparate impacts. The report shall include a list of tools using gender data, assessment dates, and mitigation recommendations. This bill would also establish an interagency task force on the gender equity of artificial intelligence tools in the workforce. The task force must meet at least twice a year to examine how such tools are impacting employment outcomes for agency employees based on gender, including job displacement and changes in job roles.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1340, 2. Int. No. 1340, 3. July 14, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1340

 

By Council Member Louis

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to an interagency taskforce and reporting on a gendered impact assessment of artificial intelligence

 

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subdivision c of section 3-119.5 of subchapter 1 of chapter 1 of title 3 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. A list of all algorithmic tools identified by agencies as using gender as an input or a factor in any stage of the data analysis or outcome generation process.

§ 2. Subchapter 1 of chapter 1 of title 3 of the administrative code of the city of New York, is amended by adding a new section 3-119.5.1 to read as follows:

§ 3-119.5.1 Gendered impact assessment. a. By December 31, 2027, and every two years thereafter, the department of information technology and telecommunications, in consultation with labor organizations, gender equity experts, and affected community representatives, shall conduct an assessment on certain algorithmic tools, to determine whether such tools’ use of gender may result in disparate impacts.

b. The department of information technology and telecommunications shall publish on its website and submit to the mayor and the speaker of the council, the gendered impact assessment report required by subdivision a of this section. Such report shall include, but not be limited to:

1. A list of all algorithmic tools identified by agencies pursuant to paragraph 7 of subdivision c of section 3-119.5, and whether each such algorithmic tool involves the use of artificial intelligence;

2. An analysis of the tools identified as involving the use of artificial intelligence, pursuant to paragraph 1 of this subdivision, to consider if the current use, individually or in combination, by such tools of gender as an input or factor may result in disparate impacts, and the period of time during which such analysis was conducted; and

3. Recommendations for agencies on the use or implementation of artificial intelligence so as to mitigate potential disparate impacts based on gender.

§ 3. Subchapter 1 of chapter 1 of title 3 of the administrative code of the city of New York, is amended by adding a new section 3-119.5.2 to read as follows:

§ 3-119.5.2 Interagency task force on the gender equity of artificial intelligence tools in the workforce. a. An interagency task force on the gender equity of artificial intelligence tools in the workforce shall be established, consisting of the heads of the following agencies, or their designees:

1. The department of citywide administrative services;

2. The department of consumer and worker protection;

3. The commission on human rights;

4. The department of information technology and telecommunications; and

5. The commission on gender equity. 

b. Such interagency taskforce shall convene no less than once every six months to examine the workforce impacts of artificial intelligence tools for agency employees based on gender, including hiring, loss of position, partial displacement, and role transformation. Such interagency taskforce shall establish and maintain a mechanism for agency employees to provide information and evidence of the disparate impacts of artificial intelligence on their positions, or on others in their agency, to the taskforce. At each convening of such interagency taskforce, it shall consider whether to provide recommendations to the mayor and the speaker of the council on measures that could be taken to address any actual or potential disparate workforce impacts of artificial intelligence on agency employees based on gender that have been identified.

§ 4. This local law takes effect 180 days after it becomes law.

 

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LS #15812/16066

7/3/25