Bill Text: NY S00812 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a toll free confidential hotline for complainants of workplace sexual harassment to be administered by the division of human rights; makes related provisions.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-03-07 - SUBSTITUTED BY A2035B [S00812 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           812

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

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

        AN  ACT  to  amend the executive law, in relation to establishing a toll
          free hotline for complainants of workplace sexual harassment

          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  establish  a  toll  free  hotline to provide individuals with
     4  complaints of workplace sexual harassment counsel  and  assistance.  The
     5  division  shall  operate  this hotline during regular business hours and
     6  disseminate information about this hotline in  order  to  ensure  public
     7  knowledge  of  the  hotline, including by working with the department of
     8  labor to ensure that information on the hotline is included in any mate-
     9  rials employers must post  or  provide  to  employees  regarding  sexual
    10  harassment.  The  division  will  work  with  organizations representing
    11  attorneys, including but not limited to the New York state  bar  associ-
    12  ation,  to  recruit attorneys that shall provide pro bono assistance and
    13  counsel to individuals that contact the hotline. Attorneys will  not  be
    14  committed  to  representing any sexual harassment complainants that they
    15  advise through the hotline.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    17  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    18  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    19  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    20  completed on or before such effective date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02897-01-1