New York state lawmakers are promoting bills to crack down on sexual harassment in the workplace.

A key measure would scrap the current standard that says harassment must be “severe or pervasive” to be substantiated — a provision advocates said is too stringent.

Under the proposed standard, an alleged victim would only have to prove that harassment rose above the level of “petty slights or inconveniences.”

Meanwhile the Senate and Assembly held a joint legislative hearing Friday scrutinizing sexual harassment in the workplace, marking only the second open panel discussion in three decades.

The first hearing in 27 years was held on Feb. 13.

Dana Sussman, the deputy commissioner for the city Commission on Human Rights, testified at the first hearing that the state should strip its “severe and pervasive” standards, which the city has already done.