Bill Text: NY A00059 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 59 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires all colleges and universities to provide sexual harassment training to undergraduate and graduate student interns.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to higher education [A00059 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00059-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                           59
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL, SIMON, SIMOTAS -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Higher Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring institutions
          of higher learning  to  provide  sexual  harassment  training  to  all
          participants in internships and externships
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 817 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 817. Sexual harassment training. 1. Duty.  It shall be the  duty  of
     4  the college authorities in general charge of the operation of any public
     5  or  independent college or university to cause any student participating
     6  in a paid or unpaid internship or externship, whether on campus, or  off
     7  campus,  to receive instruction and training in sexual harassment in the
     8  workplace.
     9    2. Report. On or before the first day of August  next  succeeding  the
    10  effective  date of this section, the college authority in general charge
    11  of the operation of a  public  or  independent  college  shall  annually
    12  submit a report to the governor and the legislature which shall include,
    13  but  not  be  limited  to, the number of students instructed pursuant to
    14  subdivision one of this section.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01835-01-9