Title: Senate Anti-Harassment Training Resolution of 2017
Policy area: Congress

Summary:
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)
Senate Anti-Harassment Training Resolution of 2017
(Sec. 3) Requires Senators, Senate officers, and Senate managers to periodically complete training that addresses workplace harassment, including sexual harassment and related intimidation and reprisal prohibited under the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 and their role in recognizing and responding to harassment and harassment complaints.
Requires Senate employees, interns, fellows, and detailees to periodically complete similar training. Requires the head of an office, including a joint commission or joint committee, employing Senate employees to ensure that an individual serving in a covered position or as a Senate manager in the office has access to the training.
(Sec. 4) Requires individuals to complete such training within 60 days after: (1) adoption of this resolution; or (2) assuming a Senate position, if after such adoption. Deems individuals to have completed training if they completed training during the 115th Congress.
(Sec. 5) Directs each office, including a joint commission or joint committee, employing Senate employees to certify whether covered individuals have completed such training during that Congress. Requires the Secretary of the Senate to publish the certification on its public website.


[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 330 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 330

     Mandating anti-harassment training for Senators and officers, 
        employees, and interns of, and detailees to the Senate.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            November 9, 2017

   Ms. Klobuchar (for herself, Mr. Grassley, Mrs. Capito, Ms. Cortez 
  Masto, Mr. Shelby, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. McConnell, Mr. Schumer, Mr. 
Cochran, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Alexander, Mr. Udall, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Warner, 
Mr. Blunt, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Cruz, Mr. King, Mr. Wicker, and Mrs. Fischer) 
 submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION


 
     Mandating anti-harassment training for Senators and officers, 
        employees, and interns of, and detailees to the Senate.

    Resolved,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This resolution may be cited as the ``Senate Anti-Harassment 
Training Resolution of 2017''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this resolution--
            (1) the term ``covered office'' means an office, including 
        a joint commission or joint committee, employing Senate 
        employees;
            (2) the term ``covered position'' means a position as--
                    (A) a Senate employee that is not a position as a 
                Senate manager;
                    (B) an intern or fellow in a covered office--
                            (i) without regard to whether the intern or 
                        fellow receives compensation; and
                            (ii) if the intern or fellow does receive 
                        compensation, without regard to the source of 
                        compensation; or
                    (C) a detailee in a covered office, without regard 
                to whether the service is on a reimbursable basis;
            (3) the term ``head of a covered office'' means--
                    (A) the Senator, officer, or Senate manager having 
                final authority to appoint, hire, discharge, and set 
                the terms, conditions, or privileges of the employment 
                of the Senate employees employed by a covered office; 
                or
                    (B) in the case of a covered office that is a joint 
                committee or joint commission, the Senator from the 
                majority party of the Senate who--
                            (i) is a member of, or has authority over, 
                        the committee or commission; and
                            (ii)(I) serves in the highest leadership 
                        role in the committee or commission; or
                            (II) if there is no such leadership role 
                        for a Senator on the committee or commission, 
                        is the most senior Senator on the committee or 
                        commission;
            (4) the term ``officer'' means an elected or appointed 
        officer of the Senate;
            (5) the term ``Senate employee'' means an employee whose 
        pay is disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate, without regard 
        to the term of the appointment; and
            (6) the term ``Senate manager'' means a Senate employee 
        empowered to effect a significant change in the employment 
        status of another Senate employee, such as hiring, firing, 
        failing to promote, reassignment with significantly different 
        responsibilities, or a decision causing a change in benefits.

SEC. 3. ANTI-HARASSMENT TRAINING.

    (a) Senators, Officers, and Senate Managers.--Each head of a 
covered office and Senate manager shall complete training that 
addresses the various forms of workplace harassment, including sexual 
harassment, and related intimidation and reprisal that are prohibited 
under the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1301 et 
seq.) and their role in recognizing and responding to harassment and 
harassment complaints.
    (b) Other Senate Staff.--Any individual serving in a covered 
position shall complete training that addresses the various forms of 
workplace harassment, including sexual harassment, and related 
intimidation and reprisal that are prohibited under the Congressional 
Accountability Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1301 et seq.).
    (c) Ensuring Access.--The head of a covered office shall ensure 
that each individual serving in a covered position or as a Senate 
manager in the covered office has access to the training required under 
this section.

SEC. 4. TIMING.

    (a) Initial Training.--
            (1) In general.--The training required under section 3 
        shall be completed--
                    (A) for an individual elected, appointed, or 
                assigned to a position as a Senator, officer, or Senate 
                manager or to a covered position after the date of 
                adoption of this resolution who was not serving in the 
                same covered office as a Senator, officer, or Senate 
                manager or in a covered position immediately before 
                being so elected, appointed, or assigned, not later 
                than 60 days after the date on which the individual 
                assumes the position; and
                    (B) except as provided in paragraph (2), for an 
                individual serving in a position as a Senator, officer, 
                or Senate manager or in a covered position on the date 
                of adoption of this resolution, not later than 60 days 
                after such date of adoption.
            (2) Individuals receiving recent training.--An individual 
        serving as a Senator, officer, or Senate manager or in a 
        covered position on the date of adoption of this resolution who 
        completed training that addresses the various forms of 
        workplace harassment, including sexual harassment, and related 
        intimidation and reprisal that are prohibited under the 
        Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 1301 et 
        seq.) during the period beginning on the first day of the 115th 
        Congress and ending on such date of adoption shall be deemed to 
        have completed training under paragraph (1)(B).
    (b) Periodic Training.--An individual serving in a position as a 
Senator, officer, or Senate manager or in a covered position shall 
complete the training required under section 3 at least once during 
each Congress beginning after the Congress during which the individual 
completes the initial training in accordance with subsection (a).

SEC. 5. CERTIFICATION.

    (a) In General.--Not later than the last day of each Congress, each 
covered office shall submit to the Secretary of the Senate a 
certification indicating whether each Senator, officer, and Senate 
manager serving in a position in the covered office and each individual 
serving in a covered position in the covered office has completed the 
training requirements under this resolution during that Congress.
    (b) Publication.--Not later than 30 days after the first day of 
each Congress, the Secretary of the Senate shall publish each 
certification submitted to the Secretary of the Senate under subsection 
(a) with respect to the previous Congress on the public website of the 
Secretary of the Senate.

SEC. 6. REGULATIONS OR GUIDANCE.

    The Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate is 
authorized to issue such regulations or guidance as it may determine 
necessary to carry out this resolution.
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