New Laws

Laws are the official rules that govern behavior within a society or country. A law is made by a legislative body, such as Congress. Laws may be passed as a bill or a statute.

A bill is a proposed law that is introduced to Congress or another legislative body for consideration. Once the bill is introduced, it goes through a process of study and debate before being amended and then passed into law. A law that is passed into law by a legislative body is then known as a federal law, or an act of Congress.

This bill would amend the City’s data breach notification laws to make them more consistent with requirements in New York State law (such as the SHIELD Act). Under this bill, City agencies that experience a security breach involving personal information of persons should be required to disclose the breach to those affected and to New York’s Chief Privacy Officer. This bill would also change the definition of “person” in the law to clarify that it includes individuals.

The bill would require the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, in consultation with the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP), to prepare a notice for City agencies to provide to employees and job applicants regarding student loan forgiveness programs.

New natural law is a revival and development of Thomistic natural law theory, first developed in the 1960s by Germain Grisez in an interpretive article on St Thomas Aquinas. It has been applied to a broad range of issues, such as abortion, euthanasia, and marriage.