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                                   5981
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 25, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. R. CARROLL, SAYEGH, CRUZ, COOK, SIMON, REYES --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring the
   Olympic regional  development  authority,  in  consultation  with  the
   department  of environmental conservation and division of human rights
   to develop an anti-bias and inclusion training program
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.    Subdivisions  15  and  16 of section 2611 of the public
 authorities law, subdivision 15 as amended by section 3  of  part  C  of
 chapter  60  of  the laws of 2012 and subdivision 16 as added by chapter
 404 of the laws of 1981 and as renumbered by chapter 38 of the  laws  of
 1987, are amended to read as follows:
   15.  To  procure insurance against any loss or liability in connection
 with the use, management, maintenance and operation of the participating
 olympic facilities and/or Belleayre Mountain ski center, in such amounts
 and from such insurers, subject to public bidding as it deems desirable;
 [and]
   16. TO DEVELOP, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT  OF  ENVIRONMENTAL
 CONSERVATION  AND  THE DIVISION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, AN ANTI-BIAS AND INCLU-
 SION TRAINING PROGRAM FOR ALL EMPLOYEES OF THE OLYMPIC REGIONAL DEVELOP-
 MENT AUTHORITY, THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL  CONSERVATION,  AND  ALL
 PRIVATE  CONTRACTORS  WORKING FOR THE STATE AT SUCH AGENCIES, WORKING IN
 TOURIST ACCOMMODATIONS OR TOURIST ATTRACTIONS IN ADIRONDACK PARK.
   (A) FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION THE FOLLOWING  TERMS  SHALL  HAVE
 THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS ASCRIBED TO THEM:
   (I)  THE  TERM "ADIRONDACK PARK" SHALL MEAN LAND LYING WITHIN THE AREA
 DESCRIBED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF  SECTION  9-0101  OF  THE  ENVIRONMENTAL
 CONSERVATION LAW INCLUDING ANY FUTURE AMENDMENTS THERETO.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   (II)  THE  TERM  "TOURIST  ACCOMMODATION" SHALL MEAN ANY HOTEL, MOTEL,
 RESORT, TOURIST CABIN, STATE-OWNED CAMPGROUND OR  CAMPSITE,  OR  SIMILAR
 FACILITY DESIGNED TO HOUSE THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
   (III)  THE  TERM "TOURIST ATTRACTION" SHALL MEAN (I) ANY HUMAN-MADE OR
 NATURAL PLACE OF INTEREST OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC  FOR  WHICH  ADMIT-
 TANCE FEE IS USUALLY CHARGED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANIMAL FARMS,
 AMUSEMENT  PARKS, REPLICAS OF REAL OR FICTIONAL PLACES, THINGS OR PEOPLE
 AND NATURAL GEOLOGICAL FORMATIONS; AND (II) ANY NATURAL  ATTRACTION  FOR
 WHICH  NO  ADMITTANCE  FEE IS CHARGED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
 FOREST PRESERVE LANDS.
   (B) ALL EMPLOYEES AND PRIVATE CONTRACTORS DESCRIBED IN  THIS  SUBDIVI-
 SION  SHALL  COMPLETE  A MINIMUM OF THIRTY MINUTES OF SUCH ANTI-BIAS AND
 INCLUSION TRAINING PROGRAM ANNUALLY.
   (C) SUCH ANTI-BIAS AND INCLUSION TRAINING PROGRAM SHALL  INCLUDE,  BUT
 SHALL  NOT  BE  LIMITED  TO: (I) GENERAL DISCUSSIONS ABOUT DIVERSITY AND
 BIAS, INCLUDING UNCONSCIOUS BIAS; (II) TOOLS TO CREATE AN INCLUSIVE  AND
 RESPECTFUL   WORK  ENVIRONMENT;  (III)  EXAMINATION  OF  EMPLOYEE'S  OWN
 PERSONAL BIASES; AND (IV) IDENTIFICATION OF WAYS TO RESPOND TO DISCRIMI-
 NATION AND BIAS.
   (D) THE DIVISION OF HUMAN RIGHTS MAY PROMULGATE RULES AND  REGULATIONS
 AS  NECESSARY  FOR  THE  PURPOSES OF CARRYING OUT THE PROVISIONS OF THIS
 SUBDIVISION; AND
   17. To do all things necessary, convenient or desirable to  carry  out
 its purposes and for the exercise of the powers granted in this title.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.