Bill Text: NY S01059 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the joint commission on public ethics to provide a training course concerning anti-sexual harassment training for lobbyists; requires lobbyists to complete the course annually.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-06-03 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S01059 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01059-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         1059--B

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sens. LIU, BIAGGI, BROUK, GOUNARDES, RAMOS -- read twice
          and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
          on Ethics and Internal Governance  --  reported  favorably  from  said
          committee,  ordered  to  first  and  second report, ordered to a third
          reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining  its  place  in  the
          order  of  third reading -- recommitted to the Committee on Ethics and
          Internal Governance in accordance  with  Senate  Rule  6,  sec.  8  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the legislative law,  in  relation  to  authorizing  the
          joint  commission  on  public  integrity  to provide a training course
          concerning anti-sexual harassment training for lobbyists and requiring
          lobbyists to complete the course annually

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

     1    Section  1.  Section 1-d of the legislative law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision (i) to read as follows:
     3    (i) provide an online anti-sexual harassment training course for indi-
     4  viduals filing statements  of  registration  as  lobbyists  pursuant  to
     5  section  one-e  of this article, including individuals filing an initial
     6  registration statement and individuals  filing  a  renewal  registration
     7  statement.   The curriculum for the course shall be based upon the model
     8  sexual harassment prevention guidance  document  and  sexual  harassment
     9  prevention  policy  promulgated  by  the department of labor pursuant to
    10  section two hundred one-g of the labor law and shall include, but not be
    11  limited to, explanations and  discussions  of  what  constitutes  sexual
    12  harassment,  the  statutes and regulations of New York concerning sexual
    13  harassment, summaries of  advisory  opinions,  underlying  purposes  and
    14  principles  of  the relevant laws, and examples of practical application
    15  of these laws and principles.   The curriculum  shall  include  specific
    16  material  relating to sexual harassment issues in the lobbying and advo-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05942-10-2
        S. 1059--B                          2

     1  cacy industry. The commission shall prepare those methods and  materials
     2  necessary to implement the curriculum.  The commission shall prepare and
     3  publish  on its website a list of the names of lobbyists who have failed
     4  to  complete the training course by the required date and are prohibited
     5  from engaging in lobbying  activities,  provided  the  commission  shall
     6  update  the  list and remove the name of any lobbyist that completes the
     7  training course within two business days of the lobbyist's completion of
     8  the training course.
     9    § 2. Sections 1-u and 1-v of  the  legislative  law,  section  1-v  as
    10  relettered by chapter 1 of the laws of 2005, are relettered sections 1-x
    11  and 1-y and a new section 1-u is added to read as follows:
    12    §  1-u.  Anti-sexual  harassment  training.  Each  individual filing a
    13  registration statement as a lobbyist pursuant to section one-e  of  this
    14  article,  including individuals filing an initial registration statement
    15  and individuals filing a renewal registration statement, shall  complete
    16  the anti-sexual harassment training course provided by the commission on
    17  public  integrity  pursuant  to subdivision (i) of section one-d of this
    18  article at least once annually during the period that such individual is
    19  registered as a lobbyist. Completion of the training course shall be  in
    20  addition  to,  and  shall not satisfy, any other statutory or regulatory
    21  requirement under state or  local  law.  If  any  person  who  has  been
    22  retained,  employed  or  designated  as a lobbyist on or before December
    23  fifteenth of the previous calendar year fails to complete such course by
    24  December thirty-first of that year, such person shall be prohibited from
    25  engaging in lobbying activities in the following year until  the  person
    26  completes  the  training  course.  If  any person who has been retained,
    27  employed or designated as a lobbyist after  December  fifteenth  of  the
    28  previous  calendar year fails to complete such course within thirty days
    29  of such retention, employment  or  designation,  such  person  shall  be
    30  prohibited  from  engaging  in  lobbying  activities  until  the  person
    31  completes the training course.
    32    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply  to  indi-
    33  viduals registered as lobbyists on and after January 1, 2023.