Bill Text: NY S08421 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | 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 - Dead) 2022-06-03 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S08421 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S08421-Introduced.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8421

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 28, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  BIAGGI -- 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.
                                                                   LBD14465-01-2