Bill Text: NY A08508 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits discrimination in investment activities and makes sexual harassment of employees by an employer, personally or through its principals or agents an unlawful discriminatory practice.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A08508 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08508-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8508

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     August 7, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to prohibiting  discrimi-
          nation in investment activities and makes sexual harassment of employ-
          ees an unlawful discriminatory practice

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

     1    Section 1. Section 296 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 1-b to read as follows:
     3    1-b. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice  for  any  person
     4  whose  business  includes  sponsoring, guaranteeing or granting funds or
     5  engaging in investment transactions to discriminate against  any  person
     6  in the sponsoring, guaranteeing or granting of funds or making available
     7  such funds because of race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orien-
     8  tation,  gender identity or expression, military status, sex, age, disa-
     9  bility, familial status or marital status.
    10    § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a  new  section  296-e  to
    11  read as follows:
    12    §  296-e.  Sexual  harassment  relating  to  employees. It shall be an
    13  unlawful discriminatory practice for an employer, personally or  through
    14  its  principals  or  agents, to sexually harass any employee. As used in
    15  this section, the term agent shall  include,  but  not  be  limited  to,
    16  professional investors, contractors, bankers or any other individual who
    17  engages in business with such employer.
    18    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    19  have become a law.


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