STATE OF NEW YORK
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4620
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 15, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- 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 executive law, in relation to expanding the scope of
unlawful discriminatory practices to include public educational insti-
tutions
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 292 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 36 to read as follows:
3 36. The term "educational institution" shall mean:
4 (a) any education corporation or association which holds itself out to
5 the public to be non-sectarian and exempt from taxation pursuant to the
6 provisions of article four of the real property tax law; or
7 (b) any public school, including any school district, board of cooper-
8 ative education services, public college or public university.
9 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 296 of the executive law, as amended by
10 chapter 8 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
11 4. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for an [education
12 corporation or association which holds itself out to the public to be
13 non-sectarian and exempt from taxation pursuant to the provisions of
14 article four of the real property tax law] educational institution to
15 deny the use of its facilities to any person otherwise qualified, or to
16 permit the harassment of any student or applicant, by reason of his
17 race, color, religion, disability, national origin, sexual orientation,
18 gender identity or expression, military status, sex, age or marital
19 status, except that any such institution which establishes or maintains
20 a policy of educating persons of one sex exclusively may admit students
21 of only one sex.
22 § 3. 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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