Bill Text: NY A02248 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Mandates that all state employees attend bystander intervention training for sexual harassment prevention annually.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A02248 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02248-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2248

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 25, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. SIMON, SEAWRIGHT, THIELE, JACKSON, BURGOS, GONZA-
          LEZ-ROJAS, LEMONDES, DAVILA, WALLACE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          TAYLOR  --  read  once  and  referred to the Committee on Governmental
          Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation  to  mandating  bystander
          intervention  training  for sexual harassment prevention for all state
          employees

          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 19 to read as follows:
     3    19.  To  mandate  that  all  state  employees  shall annually attend a
     4  bystander intervention training program developed by  the  division  for
     5  the prevention of sexual harassment.
     6    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     7  have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03260-01-3