Bill Text: NY S04197 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 4197

Introduced

Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-03 - REFERRED TO ETHICS AND INTERNAL GOVERNANCE [S04197 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4197

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 3, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. GOUNARDES, KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Ethics  and
          Internal Governance

        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 5 to read as follows:
     3    5. Other ethical duties. It shall be the ethical duty of every  person
     4  subject  to the provisions of this section to comply with the provisions
     5  of article fifteen of the executive law and any policies  or  procedures
     6  implemented  by their legislative chamber, state agency, or state office
     7  related thereto. No person shall commit an act of harassment or discrim-
     8  ination while serving in their official  capacity  and  no  such  person
     9  serving in a supervisory capacity shall know of an act of discrimination
    10  or  harassment  without  taking  action,  including  but not limited to,
    11  imposing consequences on the perpetrator of such act  of  discrimination
    12  or  harassment  in  accordance  with any applicable law, rule, policy or
    13  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.
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