Expands the ethical duties of public officers and employees to include compliance with the state human rights law and any policies or procedures implemented by their employer related thereto.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7137
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 18, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Ethics and Internal Gover-
nance
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to expanding the
ethical duties of public officers and employees
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 74 of the public officers law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
3 3-a. Other ethical duties. It shall be the ethical duty of every
4 person subject to the provisions of this section to comply with the
5 provisions of article fifteen of the executive law and any policies or
6 procedures implemented by their legislative chamber, state agency, or
7 state office related thereto. No person shall commit an act of harass-
8 ment or discrimination while serving in their official capacity and no
9 such person serving in a supervisory capacity shall know of an act of
10 discrimination or harassment without taking action, including but not
11 limited to, imposing consequences on the perpetrator of such act of
12 discrimination or harassment in accordance with any applicable law,
13 rule, policy or procedure.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
15 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11181-01-3
