Bill Text: NY A07374 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 7374 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Establishes a toll free hotline for complainants of workforce sexual harassment to be administered by the division of human rights; makes related provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A07374 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07374-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         7374--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 29, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. NIOU -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend the executive law, in relation to establishing a toll
          free hotline for complainants of workplace sexual harassment

          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  establish  a  toll  free  hotline to provide individuals with
     4  complaints of workplace sexual harassment counsel  and  assistance.  The
     5  division  shall  operate  this hotline during regular business hours and
     6  disseminate information about this hotline in  order  to  ensure  public
     7  knowledge  of  the  hotline, including by working with the department of
     8  labor to ensure that information on the hotline is included in any mate-
     9  rials employers must post  or  provide  to  employees  regarding  sexual
    10  harassment.  The  division  will  work  with  organizations representing
    11  attorneys, including but not limited to the New York state  bar  associ-
    12  ation,  to  recruit attorneys that shall provide pro bono assistance and
    13  counsel to individuals that contact the hotline. Attorneys will  not  be
    14  committed  to  representing any sexual harassment complainants that they
    15  advise through the hotline.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    17  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    18  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    19  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    20  completed on or before such effective date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10062-03-9