Bill Text: NY A00290 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires all colleges and universities to provide sexual harassment training to undergraduate and graduate student interns.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - referred to higher education [A00290 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A00290-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           290

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, DINOWITZ, SIMON, RAGA -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring institutions
          of  higher  learning  to  provide  sexual  harassment  training to all
          participants in internships and externships

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

     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 819 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  819.  Sexual harassment training. 1. Duty.  It shall be the duty of
     4  the college authorities in general charge of the operation of any public
     5  or independent college or university to cause any student  participating
     6  in  a paid or unpaid internship or externship, whether on campus, or off
     7  campus, to receive instruction and training in sexual harassment in  the
     8  workplace.
     9    2.  Report.  On  or before the first day of August next succeeding the
    10  effective date of this section, the college authority in general  charge
    11  of  the  operation  of  a  public  or independent college shall annually
    12  submit a report to the governor and the legislature which shall include,
    13  but not be limited to, the number of  students  instructed  pursuant  to
    14  subdivision one of this section.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01317-01-5