Provides that no professional sporting competition or event shall be permitted, if such event is sponsored by an organization or sports governing body where in the year prior to such competition, such organization excluded players or teams based on race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity or national origin.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3932--A
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 6, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to
the Committee on Codes in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to prohibiting certain
professional sporting competitions or events in New York state
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
2 the "equal playing field act".
3 § 2. The civil rights law is amended by adding a new section 79-n to
4 read as follows:
5 § 79-n. Professional sporting competitions or events. No professional
6 sporting competition, contest or event shall be permitted in New York
7 state that is sponsored or sanctioned by an organization or sports
8 governing body where in the year prior to such New York state competi-
9 tion, contest or event any other professional sporting competition,
10 contest or event sponsored or sanctioned by such organization or sports
11 governing body excluded players or teams based on race, religion, sexual
12 orientation, ethnicity, citizenship or national origin.
13 § 3. This act shall take effect October 1, 2010.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09548-04-0
