Bill Text: NY S02164 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the commission on ethics and lobbying in government to provide a training course concerning anti-sexual harassment training for lobbyists; requires lobbyists to complete the course annually.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-13 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S02164 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02164-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2164--A
            Cal. No. 761

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 19, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sens. LIU, BROUK, GOUNARDES, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, RAMOS -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee on Ethics and Internal Governance -- reported favorably from
          said  committee, ordered to first and second report, amended on second
          report, ordered to a third reading, and to be  reprinted  as  amended,
          retaining its place in the order of third reading

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  legislative law, in relation to authorizing the
          commission on ethics and lobbying in government to provide a  training
          course  concerning  anti-sexual  harassment training for lobbyists and
          requiring lobbyists to complete the course annually

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

     1    Section  1.  Section 1-d of the legislative law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision (i) to read as follows:
     3    (i) provide an online anti-sexual harassment training course for indi-
     4  viduals filing statements  of  registration  as  lobbyists  pursuant  to
     5  section  one-e  of this article, including individuals filing an initial
     6  registration statement and individuals  filing  a  renewal  registration
     7  statement.   The curriculum for the course shall be based upon the model
     8  sexual harassment prevention guidance  document  and  sexual  harassment
     9  prevention  policy  promulgated  by  the department of labor pursuant to
    10  section two hundred one-g of the labor law and shall include, but not be
    11  limited to, explanations and  discussions  of  what  constitutes  sexual
    12  harassment,  the  statutes and regulations of New York concerning sexual
    13  harassment, summaries of  advisory  opinions,  underlying  purposes  and
    14  principles  of  the relevant laws, and examples of practical application
    15  of these laws and principles.   The curriculum  shall  include  specific
    16  material  relating to sexual harassment issues in the lobbying and advo-
    17  cacy industry. The commission shall prepare those methods and  materials
    18  necessary to implement the curriculum.  The commission shall prepare and
    19  publish  on its website a list of the names of lobbyists who have failed

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04274-02-3
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     1  to complete the training course by the required date and are  prohibited
     2  from  engaging  in  lobbying  activities,  provided the commission shall
     3  update the list and remove the name of any lobbyist that  completes  the
     4  training course within two business days of the lobbyist's completion of
     5  the training course.
     6    §  2.  Sections  1-u  and  1-v  of the legislative law, section 1-v as
     7  relettered by chapter 1 of the laws of 2005, are relettered sections 1-v
     8  and 1-w and a new section 1-u is added to read as follows:
     9    § 1-u. Anti-sexual  harassment  training.  Each  individual  filing  a
    10  registration  statement  as a lobbyist pursuant to section one-e of this
    11  article, including individuals filing an initial registration  statement
    12  and  individuals filing a renewal registration statement, shall complete
    13  the anti-sexual harassment training course provided  by  the  commission
    14  pursuant  to  subdivision  (i) of section one-d of this article at least
    15  once annually during the period that such individual is registered as  a
    16  lobbyist. Completion of the training course shall be in addition to, and
    17  shall  not  satisfy, any other statutory or regulatory requirement under
    18  state or local law. If any person who has  been  retained,  employed  or
    19  designated as a lobbyist on or before December fifteenth of the previous
    20  calendar  year fails to complete such course by December thirty-first of
    21  that year, such person shall be prohibited  from  engaging  in  lobbying
    22  activities in the following year until the person completes the training
    23  course. If any person who has been retained, employed or designated as a
    24  lobbyist after December fifteenth of the previous calendar year fails to
    25  complete such course within thirty days of such retention, employment or
    26  designation,  such  person shall be prohibited from engaging in lobbying
    27  activities until the person completes the training course.
    28    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply  to  indi-
    29  viduals registered as lobbyists on and after January 1, 2025.