Amends provisions regarding prescriptions for and supervision over student housing and safety by councils of SUNY state-operated institutions: provides that councils shall (in prescribing for and exercising supervision over student housing and safety) explicitly provide for training for campus security and other institutional personnel, including campus disciplinary or judicial boards, that addresses issues of rape, sexual harassment and other gender-motivated offenses; the development of support services and programs, including medical or psychological counseling, specifically targeted to assist victims of rape or other gender-related offenses; the creation, dissemination and provision of assistance and information about options available to such victims regarding the bringing of disciplinary or other legal action; and implementation of rape education and prevention programs; defines gender-motivated offense.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3982
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 7, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. OPPENHEIMER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the powers and duties
regarding student housing and safety of councils of state-operated
institutions
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph h of subdivision 3 of section 356 of the educa-
2 tion law, as amended by chapter 552 of the laws of 1985, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 h. prescribe for and exercise supervision over student housing and
5 safety including explicitly providing for: (1) training for campus secu-
6 rity and other institution personnel, including campus disciplinary or
7 judicial boards, that addresses issues of rape, sexual harassment and
8 other gender-motivated offenses; (2) the development of support services
9 and programs, including medical or psychological counseling, specif-
10 ically targeted to assist victims recovering from rape or other gender-
11 motivated offenses; (3) the creation, dissemination, and provision of
12 assistance and information about options available on and off-campus to
13 victims of rape or other gender-motivated offenses to bring disciplinary
14 or other legal action; and (4) implementation of rape education and
15 prevention programs, including mandatory orientation on such topics for
16 incoming students, regular workshops and symposia for current students,
17 faculty and staff, and peer education programs on rape and other
18 gender-motivated offenses. For the purpose of this paragraph, "gender-
19 motivated offense" means any conduct that harasses, intimidates or
20 otherwise injures a person that is motivated, at least in part, by such
21 person's sex, sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation,
22 regardless of whether such conduct constitutes a crime under the law of
23 this state;
24 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09161-01-9
