Bill Text: NY A05695 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Includes information about bystander intervention training in the department of labor's model sexual harassment prevention policy that includes information and practical guidance on how to enable bystanders to recognize potentially problematic behaviors and to motivate bystanders to take action when such bystanders observe problematic behaviors.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to labor [A05695 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05695-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5695--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 24, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. SIMON, EPSTEIN, DE LA ROSA, GALLAGHER, BARRETT,
          GALEF, McDONALD,  SEAWRIGHT,  GOTTFRIED,  JACKSON,  DeSTEFANO,  DURSO,
          SANTABARBARA,   GONZALEZ-ROJAS,  McMAHON,  DAVILA  --  read  once  and
          referred to the Committee  on  Labor  --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in  relation  to  bystander  intervention
          training

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 201-g of the  labor
     2  law,  as added by section 1 of subpart E of part KK of chapter 57 of the
     3  laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
     4    a. Such model sexual harassment prevention training program  shall  be
     5  interactive  and  include:  (i)  an  explanation  of  sexual  harassment
     6  consistent with guidance issued by the department in  consultation  with
     7  the  division  of  human  rights;  (ii)  examples  of conduct that would
     8  constitute unlawful sexual harassment; (iii) information concerning  the
     9  federal  and state statutory provisions concerning sexual harassment and
    10  remedies available to victims of sexual harassment; [and] (iv)  informa-
    11  tion  concerning  employees'  rights of redress and all available forums
    12  for adjudicating complaints; and  (v)  bystander  intervention  training
    13  that  includes  information  and  practical  guidance  on  how to enable
    14  bystanders to recognize potentially problematic behaviors and  to  moti-
    15  vate  such bystanders to take appropriate action when observing problem-
    16  atic behaviors; provided, however, bystander intervention training shall
    17  create no duty to intervene or impose any liability for the  failure  to
    18  intervene.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    20  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    21  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    22  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
    23  completed on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02917-02-1