Bill Text: NY S08898 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that it shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for the secretary and counsel to the governor to permit sexual harassment of a state employee who is sexually harassed in the course of state employment.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-04 - ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1516 [S08898 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08898-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8898
                    IN SENATE
                                      June 1, 2018
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        Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
        AN ACT to amend the executive law,  in  relation  to  sexual  harassment
          relating to state employees
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  296-e
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 269-e. Sexual harassment relating to state employees. 1. It shall be
     4  an  unlawful discriminatory practice for any individual appointed pursu-
     5  ant to section four of this chapter to permit  sexual  harassment  of  a
     6  state  employee  who is sexually harassed in the course of state employ-
     7  ment. Such appointed individual shall be held liable to a state  employ-
     8  ee,  with  respect  to  sexual  harassment,  when the individual knew or
     9  should have known that such  state  employee  was  subjected  to  sexual
    10  harassment in the course of state employment, and the appointed individ-
    11  ual  failed  to  take  immediate and appropriate corrective action.   In
    12  reviewing such cases, the extent of the appointed  individual's  control
    13  and  any  other  legal responsibility which the appointed individual may
    14  have with respect to the conduct of the harasser shall be considered.
    15    2. It shall be an  unlawful  discriminatory  practice  for  any  state
    16  employee  who  provides  direct  notice  of sexual harassment of a state
    17  employee harassed in the course of state  employment  to  an  individual
    18  appointed  pursuant  to section four of this chapter to receive negative
    19  treatment  regarding  employment  status,  employment  promotion,  or  a
    20  reduction  in  salary,  employment  conditions,  or  any  other negative
    21  employment action as a result of providing notice of such sexual harass-
    22  ment of a state employee to such appointed individual.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16162-02-8