Bill Text: NY A08054 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to expanding the scope of unlawful discriminatory practices to include public education institutions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-07-25 - signed chap.118 [A08054 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08054-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8054

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 31, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to expanding the scope of
          unlawful discriminatory practices to include public  education  insti-
          tutions

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 35 of section 292  of  the  executive  law,  as
     2  added  by  a  chapter  of  the  laws of 2019, amending the executive law
     3  relating to expanding the scope of unlawful discriminatory practices  to
     4  include  public education institutions, as proposed in legislative bills
     5  numbers A. 3425 and S. 4901, is amended to read as follows:
     6    [35.] 37. The term "educational institution" shall mean:
     7    (a) any education corporation or association which holds itself out to
     8  the public to be [non-secretarian] non-sectarian and exempt  from  taxa-
     9  tion pursuant to the provisions of article four of the real property tax
    10  law; or
    11    (b) any public school, including any school district, board of cooper-
    12  ative [education] educational services, public college or public univer-
    13  sity.
    14    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    15  manner as a chapter of the laws of  2019,  amending  the  executive  law
    16  relating  to expanding the scope of unlawful discriminatory practices to
    17  include public education institutions, as proposed in legislative  bills
    18  numbers A. 3425 and S. 4901, takes effect.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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