Prohibits an employer, licensing agency or employment agency from requesting or requiring that a prospective employee disclose their age, date of birth or date of graduation from an educational institution on an initial employment application or during an interview, except in the case of a bona fide occupational qualification or need.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1037
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. KIM, GIBBS, RAGA, SIMON -- Multi-Sponsored by --
M. of A. COOK, WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to prohibiting an employ-
er, licensing agency or employment agency from requesting or requiring
that a prospective employee disclose their age, date of birth or date
of graduation from an educational institution on an initial employment
application or during an interview, except in the case of a bona fide
occupational qualification or need
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3-a of section 296 of the executive law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (a-1) to read as follows:
3 (a-1) For any employer, licensing agency or employment agency to
4 request or require that a prospective employee disclose their age, date
5 of birth or date of graduation from an educational institution on an
6 initial employment application or during an interview, except in the
7 case of a bona fide occupational qualification or need.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first January next succeeding
9 the date upon which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately,
10 the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
11 sary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are
12 authorized to be made and completed on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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