Provides that no state or local agency, or any agent thereof, may use any funds, facilities, property, equipment or personnel of such agency to investigate, enforce or provide assistance in the investigation or enforcement of any federal program requiring registration of individuals, or maintaining a database of individuals, on the basis of race, color, creed, gender, sexual orientation, religion or national or ethnic origin.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5076
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 12, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to the prohibition on
certain databases and registries
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The civil rights law is amended by adding a new section
2 79-r to read as follows:
3 § 79-r. Prohibition on certain databases and registries. No state or
4 local agency, or any agent thereof, may use any funds, facilities, prop-
5 erty, equipment or personnel of such agency to investigate, enforce or
6 provide assistance in the investigation or enforcement of any federal
7 program requiring registration of individuals, or maintaining a database
8 of individuals, on the basis of race, color, creed, gender, sexual
9 orientation, religion, or national or ethnic origin. For the purposes
10 of this section, the term "agency" shall mean any state or municipal
11 department, board, bureau, division, commission, committee, public
12 authority, public corporation, council, office or other governmental
13 entity performing a governmental or proprietary function for the state
14 or any one or more municipalities thereof.
15 § 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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