Bill Text: NY S00459 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S00459 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S00459-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 459 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 6, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sens. BIAGGI, GOUNARDES, HOYLMAN, SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor 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 action when observing problematic 16 behaviors. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 18 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 19 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 20 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 21 completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02917-01-1