Bill Text: NY A04794 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires all officers and employees in the executive and legislative branches to complete mandatory sexual harassment prevention training on an annual basis; expands ethics training requirements for members of the legislature and legislative staff.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to governmental operations [A04794 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A04794-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4794--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 8, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee  on Governmental Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public officers law and the labor law,  in  relation
          to  sexual  harassment  prevention  training  for certain officers and
          employees of the state; and to amend the executive law, in relation to
          expanding certain ethics training  requirements  for  members  of  the
          legislature and legislative staff

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

     1    Section 1. The public officers law is amended by adding a new  section
     2  74-b to read as follows:
     3    §  74-b.  Sexual  harassment  prevention  training. 1. Each individual
     4  subject to the financial disclosure  requirements  of  section  seventy-
     5  three-a  of  this  article and to section two hundred one-g of the labor
     6  law shall complete  an  annual  sexual  harassment  prevention  training
     7  program  pursuant  to the provisions of section two hundred one-g of the
     8  labor law.
     9    2. All individuals newly subject to the financial disclosure  require-
    10  ments  of  section  seventy-three-a  of  this article and to section two
    11  hundred one-g of the  labor  law  shall  complete  a  sexual  harassment
    12  prevention  training  program within three months of becoming subject to
    13  such requirements.
    14    3. The provisions of this section shall be applicable to the  legisla-
    15  ture  except  to the extent that a sexual harassment prevention training
    16  program is otherwise established by the assembly  or  senate  for  their
    17  respective  members and employees and such program meets or exceeds each
    18  of the requirements set forth in section two hundred one-g of the  labor
    19  law.
    20    §  2.  Subdivision  1  of section 201-g of the labor law is amended by
    21  adding a new paragraph c to read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    c. For purposes of this section  and  section  seventy-four-b  of  the
     2  public officers law:
     3    (i)  "employee"  includes all persons subject to the financial disclo-
     4  sure requirements of section seventy-three-a of the public officers law;
     5  and
     6    (ii) "employer" includes:
     7    (A) all state departments, boards,  bureaus,  divisions,  commissions,
     8  councils or other state agencies;
     9    (B) all public authorities, other than multi-state authorities, public
    10  benefit  corporations  and  commissions at least one of whose members is
    11  appointed by the governor; and
    12    (C) the state legislature.
    13    § 3. The opening paragraph of subdivision 10  of  section  94  of  the
    14  executive  law,  as amended by section 6 of part A of chapter 399 of the
    15  laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
    16    The commission shall prepare materials and design  and  administer  an
    17  ethics training program for individuals subject to the financial disclo-
    18  sure  requirements of section seventy-three-a of the public officers law
    19  with   respect   to   the   provisions   of   sections    seventy-three,
    20  seventy-three-a,  and seventy-four of the public officers law, and addi-
    21  tionally for members of the legislature  and  legislative  employees  as
    22  defined  in  section  seventy-three-a  of  the  public officers law with
    23  respect to the provisions  of  sections  seventy-three-b,  seventy-five,
    24  seventy-six  and  seventy-seven-a  of  the  public officers law, and any
    25  other law, administrative regulation, or  internal  policy  that  is  of
    26  relevance  to the ethical conduct of such individuals in public service,
    27  as follows:
    28    § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    29  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    30  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    31  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    32  completed on or before such effective date.