Prohibits any employer, labor organization, employment agency or licensing agency, or employees or agents thereof, to seek high school, college or graduate program graduation dates from a prospective employee for an interview or as a condition for employment.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6629
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 19, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. JACKSON -- 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 prohibiting employers
from seeking graduation dates from prospective employees
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 296 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 20 to read as follows:
3 20. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice of any employer,
4 labor organization, employment agency or licensing agency, or employees
5 or agents thereof, to seek high school, college or graduate program
6 graduation dates from a prospective employee for an interview or as a
7 condition for employment.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
9 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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