File #: Int 1401-2025    Version: Name: Voluntary labor and human rights disclosures in city procurement.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted (Mayor's Desk for Signature)
Committee: Committee on Contracts
On agenda: 9/25/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to voluntary labor and human rights disclosures in city procurement
Sponsors: Yusef Salaam, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Carmen N. De La Rosa, Chris Banks, Tiffany L. Cabán, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Farah N. Louis
Council Member Sponsors: 7
Summary: This bill would allow city agencies to request voluntary disclosures from bidders on city contracts about their efforts to identify and address labor and human rights risks in their operations and supply chains. The disclosures would cover risks such as child labor, forced labor, wage theft, unsafe working conditions and violations of freedom of association. The disclosures would not apply to contracts below the small purchase limit, emergency procurements, professional services contracts, and contracts subject to federal or state requirements that would preclude such disclosures. Contracting agencies could not require such disclosures as part of their vendor responsibility determinations, bidders could not be deemed non-responsible solely for declining to provide a disclosure and the information provided could not be the sole basis for contract award decisions. The Mayor's Office of Contract Services would develop a standardized disclosure form for agencies to use when requesting these voluntary disclosures.
Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required, Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1401-A, 2. Int. No. 1401, 3. Summary of Int. No. 1401, 4. September 25, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-25-25.pdf, 6. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 7. Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 8. Committee Report 10/23/25, 9. Hearing Testimony 10/23/25, 10. Hearing Transcript 10/23/25, 11. Proposed Int. No. 1401-A - 12/15/25, 12. Committee Report 12/18/25, 13. Hearing Transcript 12/18/25, 14. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 15. December 18, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 16. Int. No. 1401-A (FINAL), 17. Int. No. 1401-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 18. Int. No. 1401-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB
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12/18/2025*Yusef Salaam Committee on Contracts Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
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Int. No. 1401-A

 

By Council Members Salaam, Brooks-Powers, De La Rosa, Banks, Cabán, Gutiérrez and Louis

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to voluntary labor and human rights disclosures in city procurement

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section                      1.  Chapter 1 of title 6 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 6-151 to read as follows:

§ 6-151 Labor and human rights disclosures in procurement.

a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section the following terms have the following meanings:

Covered contract. The term "covered contract" means any contract for goods or services that has a value greater than the small purchase limit set forth in section 3-08 of title 9 of the rules of the city of New York, provided, however, that such term shall not include emergency procurements, contracts for professional services and contracts subject to federal or state requirements that preclude additional disclosures.

Labor and human rights disclosure. The term "labor and human rights disclosure" means a voluntary statement from a bidder describing such bidder’s efforts to identify and address risks related to child labor, forced labor, wage theft, unsafe working conditions, and violations of freedom of association in such bidder’s business operations and supply chains.

b. For covered contracts, an agency may request that a bidder submit a labor and human rights disclosure as part of a vendor responsibility determination under section 103 of the general municipal law. Any failure to submit such a disclosure shall not form a basis for a determination that a bidder is not a responsible bidder.

c. The office of contract services shall develop a standardized labor and human rights disclosure form that contracting agencies shall use when requesting voluntary labor and human rights disclosures pursuant to this section. Such form shall be made publicly available on the city's website.

§ 2.  This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

 

Session 13

ARP

LS # 20023

12/9/2025