Bill Text: NY S07613 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Establishes a workplace sexual harassment, harassment, and discrimination hotline which shall be created by the division of human rights in cooperation with the department of labor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-30 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S07613 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07613-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7613

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 30, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing  a  work-
          place sexual harassment, harassment, and discrimination hotline

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

     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  296-e
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  296-e.  Workplace sexual harassment, harassment, and discrimination
     4  hotline. 1.  For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall
     5  have the following meanings:
     6    (a) "Sexual harassment, harassment, or  discrimination  in  the  work-
     7  place"  shall include any unlawful discriminatory practices set forth in
     8  subdivision one of section two hundred ninety-six of this article.
     9    (b) "The hotline" shall mean the  toll  free  number  directed  to  be
    10  established by subdivision two of this section.
    11    2.  The  division,  in cooperation with the department of labor, shall
    12  establish a single toll free number, which a resident of this state  may
    13  use to contact a designee appointed by the division, in cooperation with
    14  the  department of labor, to submit a complaint regarding sexual harass-
    15  ment, harassment, or discrimination in the workplace.
    16    3. The commissioner, in cooperation with the  commissioner  of  labor,
    17  shall  promulgate  any rules and/or regulations necessary for the imple-
    18  mentation of the hotline.
    19    4. To increase awareness of the hotline, the division and the  depart-
    20  ment of labor shall each prominently promote the hotline on their inter-
    21  net websites and shall, in cooperation, develop public service announce-
    22  ments  to  be  distributed  to commercial radio and television stations,
    23  public access television stations, and print media throughout the state,
    24  informing the public of the hotline. Such website promotions and  public
    25  service  announcements  shall  be  distributed in English and such other
    26  languages as the commissioner and the commissioner of labor  shall  deem
    27  appropriate.
    28    5.  The hotline shall be operational no later than December first, two
    29  thousand twenty.
    30    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13313-01-9
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