Bill Text: NY A09279 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 9279

Introduced

Bill Title: Expands the ethical duties of public officers and employees to include compliance with the state human rights law and any policies or procedures implemented by their employer related thereto.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-23 - referred to governmental operations [A09279 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09279-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9279

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 23, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. KELLES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN  ACT  to  amend the public officers law, in relation to expanding the
          ethical duties of public officers and employees

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Section 74 of the public officers law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
     3    3-a. Other ethical duties. It shall  be  the  ethical  duty  of  every
     4  person  subject  to  the  provisions  of this section to comply with the
     5  provisions of article fifteen of the executive law and any  policies  or
     6  procedures  implemented  by  their legislative chamber, state agency, or
     7  state office related thereto. No person shall commit an act  of  harass-
     8  ment  or  discrimination while serving in their official capacity and no
     9  such person serving in a supervisory capacity shall know of  an  act  of
    10  discrimination  or  harassment  without taking action, including but not
    11  limited to, imposing consequences on the  perpetrator  of  such  act  of
    12  discrimination  or  harassment  in  accordance  with any applicable law,
    13  rule, policy or procedure.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    15  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11181-01-3