STATE OF NEW YORK
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4901
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 28, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. MAYER, SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations
and Government Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to expanding the scope of
unlawful discriminatory practices to include public educational insti-
tutions
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 292 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 35 to read as follows:
3 35. The term "educational institution" shall mean:
4 (a) any education corporation or association which holds itself out to
5 the public to be non-secretarian and exempt from taxation pursuant to
6 the provisions of article four of the real property tax law; or
7 (b) any public school, including any school district, board of cooper-
8 ative education services, public college or public university.
9 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 296 of the executive law, as amended by
10 chapter 106 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
11 4. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for an [education
12 corporation or association which holds itself out to the public to be
13 non-sectarian and exempt from taxation pursuant to the provisions of
14 article four of the real property tax law] educational institution to
15 deny the use of its facilities to any person otherwise qualified, or to
16 permit the harassment of any student or applicant, by reason of his
17 race, color, religion, disability, national origin, sexual orientation,
18 military status, sex, age or marital status, except that any such insti-
19 tution which establishes or maintains a policy of educating persons of
20 one sex exclusively may admit students of only one sex.
21 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04790-01-9
