File #: Int 1401-2025    Version: * Name: Voluntary labor and human rights disclosures in city procurement.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
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
Council Member Sponsors: 1
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. 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 maintain these disclosures in a centralized database and submit annual reports to the Council on the program's implementation.
Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required, Report Required
Attachments: 1. Int. No. 1401, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1401, 3. September 25, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1401

 

By Council Member Salaam

 

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 6-149 to read as follows:

§ 6-149 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, excluding 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. Labor and human rights disclosures. 1. For covered contracts, contracting agencies may request but shall not require that bidders submit a labor and human rights disclosure as part of vendor responsibility determinations under section 103 of the general municipal law.

2. No information submitted through such disclosure may be the sole basis for any decision by the city in relation to any contract award or renewal unless otherwise authorized by law.

3. The mayor's office of contract services shall maintain such disclosures in a centralized database available to all contracting agencies.

c. Rules for labor and human rights disclosures. The procurement policy board shall promulgate rules governing labor and human rights disclosures in city procurement and the mayor’s office of contract services shall develop templates and establish best practices for collecting and analyzing such disclosures pursuant to such rules.

d. Annual report. Beginning one year after the effective date of this local law, and each year thereafter, the mayor’s office of contract services shall submit to the speaker of the council a report on the implementation of this section, including the number of covered contracts for which labor and human rights disclosures were requested and received, and any recommendations for improving the disclosure process.

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

 

Session 13

ARP

LS # 20023

8/15/2025