S 4197: Relates to the ethical standards of officers or employees of a state agency, members of the legislature and legislative employees with regard to engaging in acts of discrimination, sexual harassment or creating a hostile workplace.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4197 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 3, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. GOUNARDES, KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered print- ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Ethics and Internal Governance AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to expanding the ethical duties of public officers and employees The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 74 of the public officers law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 5 to read as follows: 3 5. Other ethical duties. It shall be the ethical duty of every person 4 subject to the provisions of this section to comply with the provisions 5 of article fifteen of the executive law and any policies or procedures 6 implemented by their legislative chamber, state agency, or state office 7 related thereto. No person shall commit an act of harassment or discrim- 8 ination while serving in their official capacity and no such person 9 serving in a supervisory capacity shall know of an act of discrimination 10 or harassment without taking action, including but not limited to, 11 imposing consequences on the perpetrator of such act of discrimination 12 or harassment in accordance with any applicable law, rule, policy or 13 procedure. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 15 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07290-01-5