Prohibits an employer, licensing agency or employment agency from requesting or requiring that a prospective employee disclose their 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--A
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 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
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 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 quali-
fication 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 date of
5 graduation from an educational institution on an initial employment
6 application or during an interview, except in the case of a bona fide
7 occupational qualification or need.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
9 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law. Effective immediate-
10 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
11 necessary 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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