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Several bills introduced this year address issues including big oil’s price gouging at the pump, affordable housing goals, and data breach disclosure. Another bill seeks to ensure that City employees are aware of the availability of student loan forgiveness programs.
This bill would require City agencies to provide notice to employees and job applicants regarding federal and State student loan forgiveness programs. DCWP would prepare a form of this notice, and City agencies would be required to provide this notice to employees and job applicants, upon request.
Under this bill, City departments would be required to disclose a breach of private identifying information about individuals to the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, the Office of Information Technology and Telecommunications, and affected persons, when they discover that such information was accessed or disclosed by an unauthorized person. This bill also aligns the City’s data breach notification laws with requirements under New York State law.
Generally, after a bill is considered in committee, committee staff prepares a report explaining the purpose and scope of the bill, and reasons for the recommendation to approve the bill. This report, which must be included in the official record of the meeting, includes a section-by-section analysis of the bill and sets forth precisely what each provision of the bill intends to accomplish.