STATE OF NEW YORK
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5696
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 24, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations
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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