STATE OF NEW YORK
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10191
IN ASSEMBLY
May 10, 2024
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Raga) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to preventing housing
discrimination based on wage history, medical history, and health
conditions
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of subdivision 2-a of section
2 296 of the executive law, as separately amended by chapters 202 and 748
3 of the laws of 2022, are amended to read as follows:
4 (a) To refuse to sell, rent or lease or otherwise to deny to or with-
5 hold from any person or group of persons such housing accommodations
6 because of the race, creed, color, disability, national origin, citizen-
7 ship or immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or
8 expression, military status, age, sex, marital status, status as a
9 victim of domestic violence, lawful source of income, wage history,
10 medical history, health conditions, or familial status of such person or
11 persons, or to represent that any housing accommodation or land is not
12 available for inspection, sale, rental or lease when in fact it is so
13 available.
14 (b) To discriminate against any person because of his or her race,
15 creed, color, disability, national origin, citizenship or immigration
16 status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military
17 status, age, sex, marital status, status as a victim of domestic
18 violence, lawful source of income, wage history, medical history, health
19 conditions, or familial status in the terms, conditions or privileges of
20 any publicly-assisted housing accommodations or in the furnishing of
21 facilities or services in connection therewith.
22 (c) To cause to be made any written or oral inquiry or record concern-
23 ing the race, creed, color, disability, national origin, citizenship or
24 immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,
25 membership in the reserve armed forces of the United States or in the
26 organized militia of the state, age, sex, marital status, status as a
27 victim of domestic violence, lawful source of income, wage history,
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 medical history, health conditions, or familial status of a person seek-
2 ing to rent or lease any publicly-assisted housing accommodation;
3 provided, however, that nothing in this subdivision shall prohibit a
4 member of the reserve armed forces of the United States or in the organ-
5 ized militia of the state from voluntarily disclosing such membership.
6 § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 296 of the executive law is amended by
7 adding a new paragraph (h) to read as follows:
8 (h) It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for any person
9 offering or providing housing accommodations, land or commercial space
10 as described in paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of this subdivision to
11 refuse to sell, rent or lease any housing accommodation, land or commer-
12 cial space to any person because of such person's wage history, medical
13 history, or health conditions.
14 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
