The New York City Council - File #: Int 0756-2018

• File #: Int 0756-2018
• Version: A
• Name: Requiring DCAS to review and report annually on the city’s efforts to collect racial and ethnic demographic information, including a review of racial classification categories and employee response rates.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 4/11/2018
• In control: Committee on Civil and Human Rights
• On agenda: 4/11/2018
• Final action: 1/11/2019
• Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to requiring the department of citywide administrative services to review and report annually on the city's efforts to collect racial and ethnic demographic information, including a review of racial classification categories and employee response rates
• Sponsors: Mathieu Eugene, Ben Kallos, Helen K. Rosenthal, Margaret S. Chin, Laurie A. Cumbo, Stephen T. Levin
• Indexes: Report Required

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
1/11/2019	A	City Council	Returned Unsigned by Mayor
1/11/2019	A	Administration	City Charter Rule Adopted
12/11/2018	A	City Council	Sent to Mayor by Council
12/11/2018	A	City Council	Approved by Council	Pass
12/10/2018	*	Committee on Civil and Human Rights	Hearing Held by Committee
12/10/2018	*	Committee on Civil and Human Rights	Amendment Proposed by Comm
12/10/2018	*	Committee on Civil and Human Rights	Amended by Committee
12/10/2018	A	Committee on Civil and Human Rights	Approved by Committee	Pass
4/23/2018	*	Committee on Civil Service and Labor	Laid Over by Committee
4/23/2018	*	Committee on Civil Service and Labor	Hearing Held by Committee
4/23/2018	*	Committee on Civil and Human Rights	Laid Over by Committee
4/23/2018	*	Committee on Civil and Human Rights	Hearing Held by Committee
4/11/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
4/11/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 756-A

By Council Members Eugene, Kallos, Rosenthal, Chin, Cumbo and Levin

Title
A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to requiring the department of citywide administrative services to review and report annually on the city's efforts to collect racial and ethnic demographic information, including a review of racial classification categories and employee response rates
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Paragraph 9 of subdivision c of section 814.1 of the New York city charter is amended to read as follows:
(9) No later than September 30, 2020, and no later than September 30 annually thereafter, publish and submit to the mayor, council and the commission on equal employment practices a report on the activities of the department of citywide administrative services and city agencies to provide fair and effective affirmative employment practices to ensure equal employment opportunity for minority group members and women who are employed by, or who seek employment with, city agencies. Such report shall include, but not be limited to, an analysis of the city government workforce and applicants for such employment by agency, title and classification except where a civil service exam was the basis of appointment; statistics relating to hiring, salary and promotion for all city agencies disaggregated by race, gender, and civil service classification and other categories as appropriate; a description of each agency's employment practices, policies and programs; an analysis of the effectiveness of the city's efforts to provide fair and effective affirmative employment practices to ensure equal employment opportunity for minority group members and women who are employed by, or who seek employment with, city agencies; an analysis of employee response rates to efforts to collect demographic information over time, and whether changes in the racial and ethnic classification categories used to coll...