Bill Text: NY S01336 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that it shall not be harassment or discrimination when a person's immutable attribute, characteristic or trait, or his or her religious belief, marital status or disability interferes with such individual's ability to meet employment requirements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S01336 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S01336-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1336
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 14, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment Operations
        AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to  the  right  to  be
          free from harassment and discrimination
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 40-c of the civil rights  law,  as
     2  amended by chapter 2 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
     3    2.  No  person shall, because of [race, creed, color, national origin,
     4  sex,] a person's immutable attribute, characteristic or trait, or  based
     5  upon  their  religious  belief,  marital status[, sexual orientation] or
     6  disability, as such term is defined in section two hundred ninety-two of
     7  the executive law, be subjected to any  discrimination  in  his  or  her
     8  civil  rights, or to any harassment, as defined in section 240.25 of the
     9  penal law, in the exercise thereof, by any other person or by any  firm,
    10  corporation or institution, or by the state or any agency or subdivision
    11  of  the  state  provided  that,  this  section  shall  not apply where a
    12  person's immutable attribute, characteristic or  trait,  or  based  upon
    13  their  religious  belief,  marital status or disability, as such term is
    14  defined in section two hundred ninety-two of the executive law, or other
    15  immutable characteristic, trait, or requirements of adherence  to  reli-
    16  gious belief, interferes, in whole or in part, with such person's abili-
    17  ty to meet employment requirements.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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