Bill Text: NY S00607 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the Olympic regional development authority, in consultation with the department of environmental conservation and division of human rights to develop an anti-bias and inclusion training to be completed by employees of such agencies annually.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-24 - referred to labor [S00607 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00607-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         607--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. BENJAMIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment  Operations  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,   ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring the
          Olympic  regional  development  authority,  in  consultation  with the
          department of environmental conservation and division of human  rights
          to develop an anti-bias and inclusion training program

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

     1    Section 1.   Subdivisions 15 and 16 of  section  2611  of  the  public
     2  authorities  law,  subdivision  15  as amended by section 3 of part C of
     3  chapter 60 of the laws of 2012 and subdivision 16 as  added  by  chapter
     4  404  of  the laws of 1981 and as renumbered by chapter 38 of the laws of
     5  1987, are amended and a new subdivision 17 is added to read as follows:
     6    15. To procure insurance against any loss or liability  in  connection
     7  with the use, management, maintenance and operation of the participating
     8  olympic facilities and/or Belleayre Mountain ski center, in such amounts
     9  and from such insurers, subject to public bidding as it deems desirable;
    10  [and]
    11    16.  To  do all things necessary, convenient or desirable to carry out
    12  its purposes and for the exercise of the powers granted in  this  title;
    13  and
    14    17.  To  develop, in consultation with the department of environmental
    15  conservation and the division of human rights, an anti-bias  and  inclu-
    16  sion training program for all employees of the Olympic regional develop-
    17  ment  authority,  the  department of environmental conservation, and all
    18  private contractors working for the state at such agencies,  working  in
    19  tourist accommodations or tourist attractions in Adirondack park.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04873-02-1
        S. 607--A                           2

     1    (a)  For  purposes  of this subdivision the following terms shall have
     2  the following meanings ascribed to them:
     3    (i)  The  term "Adirondack park" shall mean land lying within the area
     4  described in subdivision one of section 9-0101 of environmental  conser-
     5  vation law including any future amendments thereto.
     6    (ii)  The  term  "tourist  accommodation" shall mean any hotel, motel,
     7  resort, tourist cabin, state-owned campground or  campsite,  or  similar
     8  facility designed to house the general public.
     9    (iii)  The  term  "tourist  attraction" shall mean (i) any man-made or
    10  natural place of interest open to the general public  for  which  admit-
    11  tance fee is usually charged, including but not limited to animal farms,
    12  amusement  parks, replicas of real or fictional places, things or people
    13  and natural geological formations; and (ii) any natural  attraction  for
    14  which  no  admittance  fee is charged, including but not limited to, the
    15  forest preserve lands.
    16    (b) All employees and private contractors described in  this  subdivi-
    17  sion  shall  complete  a minimum of thirty minutes of such anti-bias and
    18  inclusion training program annually.
    19    (c) Such anti-bias and inclusion training program shall  include,  but
    20  shall  not  be  limited  to: (i) general discussions about diversity and
    21  bias, including unconscious bias; (ii) tools to create an inclusive  and
    22  respectful   work  environment;  (iii)  examination  of  employee's  own
    23  personal biases; and (iv) identification of ways to respond to discrimi-
    24  nation and bias.
    25    (d) The division of human rights may promulgate rules and  regulations
    26  as  necessary  for  the  purposes of carrying out the provisions of this
    27  subdivision.
    28    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    29  have become a law.