Bill Text: NY S06209 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits race discrimination based on natural hair or hairstyles; defines "race" for certain specific purposes to include, but not be limited to, ancestry, color, ethnic group identification, and ethnic background, and to include traits historically associated with race, including but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles; and defines "protective hairstyles" to include, but not be limited to, such hairstyles as braids, locks, and twists.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-07-12 - SIGNED CHAP.95 [S06209 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06209-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 6209                                                  A. 7797

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                SENATE - ASSEMBLY

                                      May 23, 2019
                                       ___________

        IN  SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. BAILEY -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Investi-
          gations and Government Operations

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

        AN ACT to amend the executive law and the education law, in relation  to
          prohibiting race discrimination based on natural hairstyles

          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  two
     2  new subdivisions 37 and 38 to read as follows:
     3    37.  The  term "race" shall include, but not be not limited to, ances-
     4  try, color, ethnic group  identification,  and  ethnic  background,  and
     5  shall  include  traits  historically associated with race, including but
     6  not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles.
     7    38. The term "protective hairstyles" shall include, but not be limited
     8  to, such hairstyles as braids, locks, and twists.
     9    § 2. Section 11 of the education law is  amended  by  adding  two  new
    10  subdivisions 9 and 10 to read as follows:
    11    9.  "Race"  shall include, but not be not limited to, ancestry, color,
    12  ethnic group identification, and ethnic background,  and  shall  include
    13  traits  historically associated with race, including but not limited to,
    14  hair texture and protective hairstyles.
    15    10. "Protective hairstyles" shall include, but not be limited to, such
    16  hairstyles as braids, locks, and twists.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11450-01-9
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