Legislation Details

File #: Int 1752-2019    Version: * Name: Reporting demographic information of members of the fire department at firehouses.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Fire and Emergency Management
On agenda: 10/17/2019
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting demographic information of members of the fire department at firehouses
Sponsors: Vanessa L. Gibson, I. Daneek Miller, Adrienne E. Adams, Alicka Ampry-Samuel , Helen K. Rosenthal
Council Member Sponsors: 5
Summary: The proposed legislation would require the Fire Department to submit to the Mayor and the Speaker of the Council, and post on the Department’s website, an annual report on the number of officers and members of the uniformed force of the department assigned to each firehouse, disaggregated by gender and race or ethnicity, as well as the number of individuals who reside within the geographic area that each firehouse covers, disaggregated by gender and race or ethnicity.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1752, 2. Int. No. 1752, 3. October 17, 2019 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 10-17-19, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - October 17, 2019
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12/31/2021*Vanessa L. Gibson City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/17/2019*Vanessa L. Gibson City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/17/2019*Vanessa L. Gibson City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 1752

 

By Council Members Gibson, Miller, Adams, Ampry-Samuel and Rosenthal

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting demographic information of members of the fire department at firehouses

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 15 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 15-144 to read as follows:

§ 15-144 Annual report on demographic information of members of the department at firehouses. a. No later than January 1, 2020, and annually thereafter, the department shall submit to the mayor and the speaker of the council, and post on its website, a report containing the following information:

1. The number of officers and members of the uniformed force of the department assigned to each firehouse, disaggregated by gender and race or ethnicity; and

2. The number of individuals who reside within the geographic area that each firehouse covers, disaggregated by gender and race or ethnicity.

b. For purposes of the public report required pursuant to subdivision a of this section, if a category contains between one and five members of the uniformed force, the number shall be replaced with a symbol. A category that contains zero shall be reported as zero.

§ 2. This law takes effect immediately.

 

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