STATE OF NEW YORK
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8322
IN SENATE
May 11, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. BAILEY -- 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 denial of
entry to a public place or denial of service solely on the basis of
wearing a mask in public during an epidemic or a pandemic
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 296 of the executive law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (i) to read as follows:
3 (i) For any person, agency, bureau, corporation or association,
4 including the state and any political subdivision thereof, to deny a
5 person entry to a public place or deny a person service solely on the
6 basis of wearing a mask in public during a state emergency for an
7 epidemic or a pandemic.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16272-01-0
