Bill Text: NY A03644 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Mandates that all state employees attend bystander intervention training for sexual harassment prevention annually.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 19-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A03644 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03644-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          3644
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 30, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. SIMOTAS, ORTIZ, MOSLEY, GOTTFRIED, QUART, PAULIN,
          SEAWRIGHT,  M. G. MILLER,  RA, STIRPE, LENTOL, CRUZ, SIMON, CYMBROWITZ
          -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DenDEKKER -- read once and  referred
          to the Committee on Governmental Operations
        AN  ACT  to  amend the executive law, in relation to mandating bystander
          intervention training for sexual harassment prevention for  all  state
          employees
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 295 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 17 to read as follows:
     3    17. To mandate that  all  state  employees  shall  annually  attend  a
     4  bystander  intervention  training  program developed by the division for
     5  the prevention of sexual harassment.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     7  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05638-01-9
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