The New York City Council - File #: Int 0660-2018

• File #: Int 0660-2018
• Version: A
• Name: Stop Sexual Harassment in NYC Act - Making improvements to clarify and strengthen the human rights law as it relates to sexual harassment.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 3/7/2018
• In control: Committee on Civil and Human Rights
• On agenda: 3/7/2018
• Final action: 5/9/2018
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to making improvements to clarify and strengthen the human rights law as it relates to sexual harassment
• Sponsors: Carlina Rivera , Deborah L. Rose, Helen K. Rosenthal, Margaret S. Chin, Vanessa L. Gibson, Keith Powers , Costa G. Constantinides, Ben Kallos, Adrienne E. Adams, Mathieu Eugene, Brad S. Lander, I. Daneek Miller, Diana Ayala , Alicka Ampry-Samuel , Karen Koslowitz

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
5/10/2018	A	City Council	Recved from Mayor by Council
5/9/2018	A	Mayor	Signed Into Law by Mayor
4/30/2018	A	Mayor	Hearing Held by Mayor
4/11/2018	A	City Council	Sent to Mayor by Council
4/11/2018	A	City Council	Approved by Council	Pass
4/9/2018	*	Committee on Civil and Human Rights	Hearing Held by Committee
4/9/2018	*	Committee on Civil and Human Rights	Amendment Proposed by Comm
4/9/2018	*	Committee on Civil and Human Rights	Amended by Committee
4/9/2018	A	Committee on Civil and Human Rights	Approved by Committee	Pass
3/7/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
3/7/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council
2/28/2018	*	Committee on Women	P-C Item Laid Over by Comm
2/28/2018	*	Committee on Women	Hearing on P-C Item by Comm
2/28/2018	*	Committee on Civil and Human Rights	P-C Item Laid Over by Comm
2/28/2018	*	Committee on Civil and Human Rights	Hearing on P-C Item by Comm

Int. No. 660-A

By Council Members Rivera, Rose, Rosenthal, Chin, Gibson, Powers, Constantinides, Kallos, Adams, Eugene, Lander, Miller, Ayala, Ampry-Samuel and Koslowitz

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to making improvements to clarify and strengthen the human rights law as it relates to sexual harassment
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:


Section 1. Section 8-101 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 119 for the year 2017, is amended to read as follows:
In the city of New York, with its great cosmopolitan population, there is no greater danger to the health, morals, safety and welfare of the city and its inhabitants than the existence of groups prejudiced against one another and antagonistic to each other because of their actual or perceived differences, including those based on race, color, creed, age, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, gender, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, partnership status, caregiver status, uniformed service, any lawful source of income, status as a victim of domestic violence or status as a victim of sex offenses or stalking, whether children are, may be or would be residing with a person or conviction or arrest record. The council hereby finds and declares that prejudice, intolerance, bigotry, and discrimination, bias-related violence or harassment and disorder occasioned thereby threaten the rights and proper privileges of its inhabitants and menace the institutions and foundation of a free democratic state. The council further finds and declares that gender-based harassment threatens the terms, conditions and privileges of employment. A city agency is hereby created with power to eliminate and prevent discrimination from playing any role in actions relating to employment, public accommodations, and housing and other real estate, and to take other actions against pre...