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Assembly Bill A2095

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires certain elected officials to sign and publicly post a certificate proving they completed their sexual harassment training program

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2025-A2095 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §201-g, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A7110
2023-2024: A3083

2025-A2095 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires certain elected officials to sign and publicly post a signed certificate proving they completed their sexual harassment training program.

2025-A2095 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2095
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 15, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. RA -- read once and referred to the Committee on
   Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring certain  elected
   officials  to  sign  and  publicly  post  a  certificate  proving they
   completed their sexual harassment training program

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section 201-g of the labor law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 5 to read as follows:
   5. UPON COMPLETION OF A SEXUAL HARASSMENT TRAINING PROGRAM, THE GOVER-
 NOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, ATTORNEY GENERAL, COMPTROLLER AND  MEMBERS  OF
 THE  STATE LEGISLATURE SHALL SIGN A CERTIFICATE UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY
 ATTESTING TO THE  INDIVIDUAL'S  COMPLETION  OF  SUCH  SEXUAL  HARASSMENT
 TRAINING  PROGRAM.  THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, ATTORNEY GENERAL,
 AND COMPTROLLER SHALL EACH POST ON THEIR WEBSITE A COPY OF THEIR  SIGNED
 CERTIFICATION  WITHIN  THIRTY  DAYS OF COMPLETION OF SUCH TRAINING.  THE
 SECRETARY OF THE NEW YORK STATE SENATE SHALL POST ON THE NEW YORK  STATE
 SENATE GOVERNMENTAL WEBSITE A COPY OF EACH MEMBER'S SIGNED CERTIFICATION
 WITHIN  THIRTY DAYS OF COMPLETION OF SUCH TRAINING. THE CLERK OF THE NEW
 YORK STATE ASSEMBLY SHALL POST ON THE NEW YORK  STATE  ASSEMBLY  GOVERN-
 MENTAL WEBSITE A COPY OF EACH MEMBER'S SIGNED CERTIFICATION WITHIN THIR-
 TY DAYS OF COMPLETION OF SUCH TRAINING.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05668-01-5

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