New York Assembly Bill 6901 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-1)
Status: Introduced on March 13 2009 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-01-06 - referred to governmental employees
Pending: Assembly Governmental Employees Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

This bill place executive order 6 into state statute thereby serving to reaffirm New York's commitment to equal employment opportunity.

Directs the state to establish equal employment opportunity and affirmative action programs for state civil service employment; requires the president of the state civil service commission to provide for the development and implementation of affirmative action programs by state agencies for the benefit of minorities, women, persons with disabilities and veterans; requires every state agency to develop and implement an affirmative action program; requires every state agency to have a full-time affirmative action officer who reports directly to the agency head.

Asm. Thomas Alfano [R]	Asm. Carmen Arroyo [D]	Asm. Jeffrion Aubry [D]	Asm. Michael Benjamin [D]
Asm. William Boyland [D]	Asm. Kevin Cahill [D]	Asm. Vivian Cook [D]	Sen. Adriano Espaillat [D]
Asm. Herman Farrell [D]	Asm. Earlene Hooper [D]	Asm. Felix Ortiz [D]	Asm. Crystal Peoples-Stokes [D]
Sen. Jose Peralta [D]	Asm. Nick Perry [D]	Asm. Adam Powell [D]	Asm. Philip Ramos [D]
Asm. Jose Rivera [D]	Asm. Naomi Rivera [D]	Asm. Peter Rivera [D]	Asm. Robert Sweeney [D]
Asm. Keith Wright [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-01-06		referred to governmental employees
2009-03-13		referred to governmental employees

Type	Source
Summary	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A06901&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A06901&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#A06901