S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3667
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 29, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SIMON, JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring employers to
submit an affirmative acknowledgement of implementing a sexual harass-
ment prevention policy which meets or exceeds the minimum standards
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 201-g of the labor law, as added
by section 1 of subpart E of part KK of chapter 57 of the laws of 2018,
is amended to read as follows:
3. A. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL CONSULT WITH THE DIVISION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
TO CREATE A SYSTEM FOR EVERY EMPLOYER TO AFFIRMATIVELY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT
THE EMPLOYER HAS MET OR EXCEEDED THE SEXUAL HARASSMENT PREVENTION POLICY
MINIMUM STANDARDS REQUIRED BY THIS SECTION AND THE REGULATIONS PROMUL-
GATED BY THE COMMISSIONER IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS SECTION.
B. EACH EMPLOYER SHALL SUBMIT TO THE DEPARTMENT AN AFFIRMATIVE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THAT THE EMPLOYER HAS MET OR EXCEEDED THE SEXUAL HARASS-
MENT PREVENTION POLICY MINIMUM STANDARDS REQUIRED BY THIS SECTION AND
THE REGULATIONS PROMULGATED BY THE COMMISSIONER IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS
SECTION UPON THE COMPLETION OF THE EMPLOYER'S ANNUAL SEXUAL HARASSMENT
PREVENTION TRAINING AND UPON THE COMPLETION OF THE SEXUAL HARASSMENT
PREVENTION TRAINING IF ANY PERSON NEWLY HIRED BY THE EMPLOYER. THE
EMPLOYER SHALL USE THE SYSTEM CREATED BY THE DEPARTMENT UNDER PARAGRAPH
A OF THIS SUBDIVISION TO SUBMIT THE AFFIRMATIVE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
REQUIRED BY THIS PARAGRAPH.
3-A. The commissioner [may] SHALL promulgate regulations [as he or she
deems necessary] for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this
section.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06319-01-5