File #: Int 1044-2024    Version: * Name: Creation of a mobile application on exercise and nutrition programs.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Technology
On agenda: 9/12/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the creation of a mobile application on exercise and nutrition programs
Sponsors: Lynn C. Schulman, Kevin C. Riley, Mercedes Narcisse, Justin L. Brannan
Council Member Sponsors: 4
Summary: This bill would require the Commissioner of the Office of Technology and Innovation to create a mobile app with information on exercise and nutrition programs that are run by a city agency or submitted by a city agency for inclusion. City-contracted community-based organizations would be able to submit requests to include information about other exercise and nutrition programs in the app, and those programs would be included if approved by the Commissioner in consultation with the Commissioners of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Department of Parks and Recreation.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1044, 2. Int. No. 1044, 3. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-12-24, 4. September 12, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1044

 

By Council Members Schulman, Riley, Narcisse and Brannan

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the creation of a mobile application on exercise and nutrition programs

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Title 23 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new chapter 9 to read as follows:

CHAPTER 9

MOBILE APPLICATIONS

§ 23-901 Mobile application for exercise and nutrition programs. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the term “mobile application” means a type of application software designed to run on a mobile device, such as a smartphone or tablet computer.

b. Mobile application required. The commissioner of information technology and telecommunications shall create and maintain a mobile application that provides information on exercise and nutrition programs. Such mobile application shall be operational no later than 6 months after the effective date of the local law that added this section and shall include information about every exercise and nutrition program run by an agency or submitted by an agency to the commissioner for inclusion in the mobile application. The programs included in the mobile application shall be searchable by location, type of program, and any other criteria determined by the commissioner.

c. Community-based organizations. The mobile application shall allow city-contracted community-based organizations to submit requests to include information about an exercise or nutrition program in the mobile application. Information about an exercise and nutrition program submitted by a city-contracted community-based organization may be included in the mobile application if it is approved by the commissioner in consultation with the commissioner of health and mental hygiene and commissioner of parks and recreation.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

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7/11/2024 10:00 AM