Assembly Bill A1295

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to bystander intervention training

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A1295 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §201-g, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A9843
2021-2022: A5695
2023-2024: A2222

2025-A1295 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes information about bystander intervention training in the department of labor's model sexual harassment prevention policy that includes information and practical guidance on how to enable bystanders to recognize potentially problematic behaviors and to motivate bystanders to take action when such bystanders observe problematic behaviors.

2025-A1295 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1295
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. SIMON, EPSTEIN, GALLAGHER, BARRETT, SEAWRIGHT,
   JACKSON,  DeSTEFANO,  DURSO,  SANTABARBARA,  GONZALEZ-ROJAS,  McMAHON,
   DAVILA, DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the labor law, in relation to bystander intervention
   training

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Paragraph a of subdivision 2 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:
   a.  Such  model sexual harassment prevention training program shall be
 interactive  and  include:  (i)  an  explanation  of  sexual  harassment
 consistent  with  guidance issued by the department in consultation with
 the division of human  rights;  (ii)  examples  of  conduct  that  would
 constitute  unlawful sexual harassment; (iii) information concerning the
 federal and state statutory provisions concerning sexual harassment  and
 remedies  available to victims of sexual harassment; [and] (iv) informa-
 tion concerning employees' rights of redress and  all  available  forums
 for  adjudicating  complaints;  AND  (V) BYSTANDER INTERVENTION TRAINING
 THAT INCLUDES INFORMATION  AND  PRACTICAL  GUIDANCE  ON  HOW  TO  ENABLE
 BYSTANDERS  TO  RECOGNIZE POTENTIALLY PROBLEMATIC BEHAVIORS AND TO MOTI-
 VATE SUCH BYSTANDERS TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION WHEN OBSERVING  PROBLEM-
 ATIC BEHAVIORS; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, BYSTANDER INTERVENTION TRAINING SHALL
 CREATE  NO  DUTY TO INTERVENE OR IMPOSE ANY LIABILITY FOR THE FAILURE TO
 INTERVENE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
 tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
 completed on or before such effective date.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02734-01-5

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