Assembly Bill A9707

                            
 
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                                   9707
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2020
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 Introduced by M. of A. MOSLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Higher Education
 
 AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to Title VI training for
   certain colleges or universities in New York state
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. The education law is amended by adding a new article 129-C
 to read as follows:
                                ARTICLE 129-C
                             TITLE VI TRAINING
 SECTION 6450. TITLE VI TRAINING.
   § 6450. TITLE VI TRAINING. 1. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION,  "INSTITU-
 TION"  SHALL  MEAN ANY COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY CHARTERED BY THE REGENTS OR
 INCORPORATED BY SPECIAL ACT OF THE LEGISLATURE THAT MAINTAINS  A  CAMPUS
 IN NEW YORK.
   2.  EVERY  INSTITUTION  SHALL  REQUIRE ALL EMPLOYEES WHO ARE LIKELY TO
 INTERACT OR COME INTO  CONTACT  WITH  STUDENTS  TO  UNDERGO  A  TRAINING
 PROGRAM  IN  TITLE VI OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF NINETEEN HUNDRED SIXTY-
 FOUR. SUCH TRAINING PROGRAM SHALL BE APPROVED  BY  THE  DEPARTMENT,  AND
 SHALL  INCLUDE,  BUT  NOT  BE LIMITED TO, THE DEFINITION OF ANTISEMITISM
 ADOPTED ON MAY TWENTY-SIX, TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN,  BY  THE  INTERNATIONAL
 HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE ALLIANCE, WHICH STATES, "ANTISEMITISM IS A CERTAIN
 PERCEPTION OF JEWS, WHICH MAY BE EXPRESSED AS HATRED TOWARD JEWS.  RHET-
 ORICAL  AND  PHYSICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF ANTISEMITISM ARE DIRECTED TOWARD
 JEWISH OR NON-JEWISH INDIVIDUALS AND/OR THEIR  PROPERTY,  TOWARD  JEWISH
 COMMUNITY  INSTITUTIONS AND RELIGIOUS FACILITIES".  THE TRAINING PROGRAM
 MAY BE DEVELOPED BY A FEDERAL, STATE, OR  NON-PROFIT  ORGANIZATION,  AND
 MAY  BE  INCORPORATED  AS  PART  OF  THE INSTITUTION'S EXISTING TRAINING
 PROGRAMS OR MAY BE PROVIDED BY ORGANIZATIONS OR PROVIDERS IDENTIFIED  BY
 THE DEPARTMENT.
   3.  THE  DEPARTMENT SHALL MAKE AVAILABLE NO MORE THAN SIX MONTHS AFTER
 THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION A LIST OF APPROVED CULTURAL SENSITIV-
 ITY AND DIVERSITY TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR USE BY INSTITUTIONS.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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   4. TRAINING SHALL TAKE PLACE ON THE PREMISES OF  THE  INSTITUTION  AND
 SHALL BE CONSIDERED COMPENSABLE TIME.
   5.  EVERY  INSTITUTION  SHALL  MAINTAIN  RECORDS  INDICATING THAT EACH
 EMPLOYEE REQUIRED TO UNDERGO  AN  APPROVED  TITLE  VI  TRAINING  PROGRAM
 PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION HAS COMPLETED SUCH TRAINING. SUCH RECORDS SHALL
 BE  KEPT  ON  FILE  BY  THE  INSTITUTION FOR THE PERIOD DURING WHICH THE
 EMPLOYEE IS EMPLOYED BY THE INSTITUTION AND  FOR  ONE  YEAR  AFTER  SUCH
 EMPLOYMENT ENDS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it  shall  have become a law. Effective immediately, the commissioner of
 education may make regulations  and  take  other  actions  necessary  to
 implement this act on its effective date.