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This bill implements comprehensive protections for employees regarding electronic monitoring and artificial intelligence (AI) systems in the workplace. It restricts employers from engaging in invasive electronic monitoring by requiring them to narrowly tailor monitoring efforts to specific legitimate purposes such as ensuring service quality, assessing performance, ensuring legal compliance, protecting employee safety, and administering benefits. The bill prohibits employers from using electronic monitoring to collect sensitive personal information like medical history, biometric data, or protected demographic characteristics, and from tracking employees' personal devices or locations. For high-risk AI systems that make consequential decisions about employees, employers must conduct an independent impact assessment, notify employees about the AI system's use, provide transparency about how decisions are made, and allow employees to appeal adverse decisions with human review. The bill also establishes that employees have the right to collectively bargain over AI system usage and protects workers from retaliation if they refuse to follow potentially discriminatory AI-generated decisions. Employers who violate these provisions can face civil penalties up to $3,000 for repeated offenses, and employees can pursue legal action to recover damages. The bill applies to both private employers and state agencies, with most provisions taking effect on October 1, 2025.

Justice, Labor and Employment

Labor and Public Employees Committee (J)

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