Bill Text: NY S00759 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Mandates that all state employees attend bystander intervention training for sexual harassment prevention annually.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S00759 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00759-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           759

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  BIAGGI, GOUNARDES, HOYLMAN, SALAZAR -- read twice
          and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
          on Finance

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation  to  mandating  bystander
          intervention  training  for sexual harassment prevention for all state
          employees

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

     1    Section 1. Section 295 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 17 to read as follows:
     3    17.  To  mandate  that  all  state  employees  shall annually attend a
     4  bystander intervention training program developed by  the  division  for
     5  the prevention of sexual harassment.
     6    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     7  have become a law.






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