Bill Text: NY A10020 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a committee on workplace rights to conduct a workplace climate survey on discrimination and harassment in the state legislature.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-07 - referred to governmental operations [A10020 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A10020-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          10020
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 7, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  legislative  law, in relation to establishing a
          committee on workplace  rights  and  a  workplace  climate  survey  on
          discrimination and harassment
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Article 7 and sections 100 and 101 of the legislative  law,
     2  as renumbered by chapter 510 of the laws of 1999, are renumbered article
     3  8  and  sections  200  and  201  and a new article 7 is added to read as
     4  follows:
     5                                  ARTICLE 7
     6                        COMMITTEE ON WORKPLACE RIGHTS
     7  Section 100. Committee on workplace rights established.
     8          101. Workplace climate survey.
     9    § 100. Committee on workplace rights established. 1. The committee  on
    10  workplace  rights  shall  consist  of  four  members  to be appointed as
    11  follows: one member shall be a representative  of  the  senate  majority
    12  personnel  office,  appointed  by the temporary president of the senate;
    13  one member shall be a representative of  the  assembly  human  resources
    14  department,  appointed  by the speaker of the assembly; one member shall
    15  be a representative of the senate minority personnel  office,  appointed
    16  by  the  minority leader of the senate; and one member shall be a repre-
    17  sentative of the assembly minority administration and personnel  office,
    18  appointed  by  the  minority  leader  of  the assembly. Any vacancy that
    19  occurs in the committee shall be filled in the same manner in which  the
    20  original appointment was made.
    21    2.  The  committee  shall not receive compensation, but shall be reim-
    22  bursed for their necessary and actual expenses incurred in the  perform-
    23  ance of their duties in the work of the committee.
    24    §  101. Workplace climate survey. 1. (a) The committee shall carry out
    25  an anonymous survey of individuals serving in positions in the  assembly
    26  of  the state of New York and in positions in the senate of the state of
    27  New York to determine:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    i. the scope of discrimination and harassment in  the  state  legisla-
     2  ture;
     3    ii.  whether  discrimination  and  harassment  prevention  and  reform
     4  efforts are working to curb the prevalence of discrimination and harass-
     5  ment in the state legislature; and
     6    iii. whether the complaint and reporting process  regarding  instances
     7  of discrimination and harassment in the state legislature is sufficient.
     8    (b) The survey shall be conducted no later than one year following the
     9  establishment of the committee and every two years thereafter.
    10    2.  (a) The committee shall prepare a report regarding the findings of
    11  the survey described in subdivision one of this section  that  does  not
    12  reveal  the  methods  used  by  the committee to gather responses to the
    13  survey.
    14    (b) The committee shall submit the report only to the assembly commit-
    15  tee on ethics and guidance, the assembly committee on rules, the  senate
    16  committee  on  ethics  and  internal governance, the senate committee on
    17  rules, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the  assem-
    18  bly,  the  minority leader of the senate, and the minority leader of the
    19  assembly.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    21  it shall have become a law.