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L.L. 2018/093
Enactment date: 5/9/2018
Int. No. 613-A
By Council Members Adams, Rose, Rosenthal, Chin, Powers, Constantinides, Reynoso, Lander, Ayala, Miller, Rivera and Koslowitz
A Local Law in relation to assessing workplace risk factors associated with sexual harassment within city agencies
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Sexual harassment workplace risk factors report.
a. Definitions. For purposes of this local law, the term "agency" has the same meaning as such term is defined in section 1150 of the New York city charter and shall include the offices of the borough presidents, the comptroller and the public advocate.
b. Every agency shall conduct an ongoing assessment of risk factors associated with sexual harassment at such agency in order to help provide a fair and safe work environment for all city workers. Each agency shall submit its ongoing assessment of risk factors to the department of citywide administrative services for periodic review. Such ongoing assessment of risk factors is intended to assist the department of citywide administrative services and each agency to develop responsive strategies to combat sexual harassment.
c. The risk factors to be assessed may include, but need not be limited to, the following:
(a) Homogenous workforce, such as work environments with low diversity with respect to age, ethnicity, gender, race, or sex;
(b) Language differences in the workplace;
(c) Workplaces with significant power disparities such as workplaces where employees hold positions usually subject to the direction of others;
(d) Isolated workplaces such as workplaces where employees work alone or have few opportunities to interact with others; and
(e) Decentralized workplaces such as workplaces that are geographically dispersed.
d. The assessments required pursuant to this section shall be submitted to the department of citywide administrative services for periodic review.
§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately and shall be deemed repealed on January 31, 2022.
L.L. 2018/101
Enactment date: 5/9/2018
Int. No. 664-A
By Council Members Rosenthal, Rose, Chin, Powers, Constantinides, Lander, Ayala, Miller, Adams, Rivera and Koslowitz
A Local Law in relation to climate surveys and action plans to combat sexual harassment and equal employment opportunity violations at city agencies
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Equal employment opportunity and sexual harassment climate surveys.
a. Definitions. For purposes of this local law, the term "agency" has the same meaning as such term is defined in section 1150 of the New York city charter and shall include the offices of the borough presidents, the comptroller and the public advocate.
b. The department of citywide administrative services shall develop a climate survey to assess the general awareness and knowledge of the city's equal employment opportunity ("EEO") policy, including but not limited to sexual harassment policies and prevention at city agencies, including employee experience with and knowledge of reporting of prohibited acts. In addition, such survey shall include questions, that may be completed in full or in part, at the discretion of the employee respondent, including race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and age of the employee. The department shall use such survey to assess each agency regarding the following:
(1) The extent that employees of each agency are familiar with the EEO policy of such agency they are employed by or assigned to, including but not limited to sexual harassment;
(2) The extent that employees are knowledgeable about the EEO policy, including but not limited to sexual harassment, and where they can get help if they believe that they were sexually harassed;
(3) The extent that employees are knowledgeable about how and where to file a formal complaint about a violation of the EEO policy, including but not limited to a complaint about sexual harassment or related misconduct or how to initiate a disciplinary procedure;
(4) The extent that employees are knowledgeable about the process that occurs after an employee has filed a complaint about a violation of the EEO policy, including but not limited to a complaint of sexual harassment or related misconduct;
(5) For supervisory and managerial employees, the extent that such employees are knowledgeable about their responsibilities with respect to the prevention of violations of the EEO policy, including but not limited to sexual harassment and retaliation as such conduct is prohibited by the city's human rights law;
(6) For supervisory and managerial employees, the extent that such employees are knowledgeable about measures that such employee may take to appropriately address complaints under the EEO policy, including but not limited to sexual harassment complaints;
(7) Whether employees have witnessed or experienced sexual harassment, as described by local law or a violation of the EEO policy, including but not limited to unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical harassment of a sexual nature, at their current place of employment or at an employer sanctioned event;
(8) Whether employees feel that their workplace is safe and free from violations of the EEO policy, including but not limited to sexual harassment or retaliation;
(9) Whether employees believe that the agency they are employed by or assigned to protects the rights of its employees to pursue their duties in a respectful workplace;
(10) Whether employees believe that the agency they are employed by or assigned to ensures that all employees are protected from workplace harassment and ensures that all employees are treated equally and fairly;
(11) Whether employees believe that the agency they are employed by or assigned to takes steps to prevent violations of the EEO policy, including but not limited to incidents of sexual harassment or retaliation;
(12) Whether employees believe that the agency they are employed by or assigned to takes seriously and investigates violations of the EEO policy, including but not limited to claims of sexual harassment; and
(13) Whether employees believe that the agency they are employed by or assigned to adequately responds to those who claim to have experienced violations of the EEO policy, including those who may be victims of sexual harassment, and ensures that appropriate resources are made available to those individuals.
c. The department shall make the climate survey available to all agencies for dissemination to agency employees on or before September 31, 2018. Agencies shall ensure that each employee receives such climate survey and are advised that such climate survey is not mandatory or required as part of such employee's job. Agencies shall take steps to ensure that the assessment remains anonymous and that no individual employee is personally identified.
d. No later than February 28, 2019, the department shall prepare and submit to the mayor and the speaker a report with the results of the climate survey prepared pursuant to subdivision b of this section. Any agency may provide additional information to the department in preparation of such report. Such additional information may include prior relevant reports or underlying data that can provide context to the results of such agency's climate assessment, including an assessment of risk factors associated with sexual harassment within such agency.
e. No later than December 31, 2019, the department shall work with each agency to develop an action plan, to be incorporated into each agency's annual EEO plan, and to be reported to the mayor and the speaker on or before March 31, 2020. Such action plan shall address the results of each agency's climate survey including but not limited to:
(1) Identifying any issues at such agency identified by the climate survey required by subdivision b and outlining what steps such agency will take to address and cure those issues; and
(2) Incorporating the recommendations of the report issued pursuant to subdivision d of this section.
f. After each agency develops and implements an action plan pursuant to subdivision e, and no later than July 31, 2020, each agency shall redistribute the climate survey required by subdivision b to each agency employee. The department shall produce a report to the mayor and the speaker on or before December 31, 2021 with the results of the climate survey prepared pursuant to this subdivision. No later than December 31, 2022, the department shall work with each agency to update their action plans, to be incorporated into each agency's annual EEO plan, and to be reported to the mayor and the speaker on or before December 31, 2022, which shall address the results of each agency's climate survey redistributed pursuant to this subdivision.
g. On or before July 31, 2024 and on or before July 31 every four years thereafter, each agency shall redistribute the climate survey required by subdivision b to each agency employee. The department shall produce a report to the mayor and the speaker on or before December 31, 2025 and on or before December 31 every four years thereafter with the results of the climate survey prepared pursuant to this subdivision.
§ 2. This local law takes effect 90 days after it becomes law.
L.L. 2018/110
Enactment date: 6/9/2018
Int. No. 599-A
By the Speaker (Council Member Johnson) and Council Members Deutsch, Kallos, Constantinides, Ampry-Samuel, Rivera, Miller and Borelli
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the fire department to conduct outreach and education to residential buildings
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
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[Consolidated provisions are not included in this Appendix A]
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§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law, except that the commissioner of fire may take such measures as are necessary for the implementation of this local law, including the promulgation of rules, before such date. Subdivision b of section 15-132 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by section one of this local law, is deemed repealed 5 years after it becomes law.
L.L. 2018/116
Enactment date: 6/9/2018
Int. No. 609-A
By Council Members Torres, Deutsch, Levine, Chin, Holden, Ampry-Samuel, Kallos, Constantinides, Rivera, Miller, Borelli and Ulrich (by request of The Bronx Borough President)
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the fire department to implement a plan for educating both children and parents about fire safety and prevention
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
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[Consolidated provisions are not included in this Appendix A]
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§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law, except that the commissioner of fire may take such measures as are necessary for the implementation of this local law, including the promulgation of rules, before such date. Subdivision b of section 15-133 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by section one of this local law, is deemed repealed 5 years after it becomes law.
L.L. 2018/123
Enactment date: 6/26/2018
Int. No. 401-A
By Council Members Vallone, Brannan, Holden, Powers, Ampry-Samuel, Constantinides, Levin, Kallos, Koslowitz, Rivera and Miller
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to animal shelters
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
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[Consolidated provisions are not included in this Appendix A]
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§ 2. This local law takes effect on July 1, 2024; provided, however, that the department of health and mental hygiene shall submit to the mayor and the speaker on July 1, 2020 and biennially thereafter, until such date such shelters are open and operating, a report detailing the progress toward the opening of full-service shelters in the boroughs of Queens and The Bronx.
L.L. 2018/129
Enactment date: 6/26/2018
Int. No. 669-A
By Council Members Torres, Holden, Levin, Kallos and Rivera
A Local Law to amend the charter of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the municipal drug strategy advisory council to report on opioid antagonist distribution
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
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[Consolidated provisions are not included in this Appendix A]
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§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately, and shall expire and be deemed repealed on the same date local law number 48 for the year 2017 expires and is deemed repealed.
L.L. 2018/133
Enactment date: 7/29/2018
Int. No. 607-A
By Council Members Richards, the Speaker (Council Member Johnson), Lander, Chin, Rosenthal, Constantinides, Reynoso, Perkins, Miller and Rivera
A Local Law in relation to requiring that city affordable housing plans address historic patterns of racial segregation
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Any citywide plan that provides for the creation or preservation of affordable housing shall, to the greatest extent practicable, provide for such creation or preservation in a manner that affirmatively furthers fair housing by taking meaningful actions, in addition to combating discrimination, that overcome patterns of segregation and foster inclusive communities free from barriers that restrict access to opportunity based on protected characteristics. Specifically, affirmatively furthering fair housing means taking meaningful actions that, taken together, address significant disparities in housing needs and in access to opportunity, replacing segregated living patterns with truly integrated and balanced living patterns, transforming racially and ethnically concentrated areas of poverty into areas of opportunity, and fostering and maintaining compliance with civil rights and fair housing laws. Such plan may explicitly address the prevention of displacement of residents.
§ 2. On or before January 1, 2020 and every five years thereafter, the department of housing preservation and development shall submit a report to the mayor and the council on its compliance with the obligations set forth in this local law, provided that such reporting shall be required no more frequently than once per five years.
§ 3. This local law takes effect immediately.
Editor's note: L.L. 2018/133 was repealed by L.L. 2023/167.
L.L. 2018/138
Enactment date: 7/29/2018
Int. No. 851
By Council Members Matteo, Holden, Vallone, Miller and Ulrich
A Local Law in relation to a plan to increase enforcement of littering out of vehicles
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. The commissioner of sanitation shall develop and submit to the mayor and the speaker of the council by April 1, 2019, a plan to increase enforcement of subdivision 4 of section 16-118 of the administrative code of the city of New York. This plan shall include but not be limited to:
a. a list of locations in the city where litter is commonly thrown from cars, which shall be developed by such commissioner in consultation with council members and community boards;
b. the number of sanitation officers necessary to enforce such subdivision in such locations;
c. the number of violations issued annually for littering out of a vehicle, disaggregated by sanitation district;
d. a description of steps the department of sanitation will take to increase enforcement of such subdivision; and
e. a timeline for implementation of such plan.
§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.
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