Assembly Bill A9305

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Includes persons with disabilities as "minority group members" as defined in the executive law

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A9305 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7392
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §310, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A2910, S2342
2017-2018: A11114, S3785
2019-2020: A1435
2021-2022: A2467

2013-A9305 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes persons with disabilities as "minority group members" as defined in the executive law.

2013-A9305 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  9305

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              April 8, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Governmental Operations

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  executive law, in relation to the definition of
  "minority group member"

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Paragraphs (c) and (d) of subdivision 8 of section 310 of
the executive law, as added by chapter 261 of  the  laws  of  1988,  are
amended and a new paragraph (e) is added to read as follows:
  (c) Native American or Alaskan native persons having origins in any of
the original peoples of North America[.];
  (d)  Asian  and  Pacific Islander persons having origins in any of the
Far East countries, South East Asia,  the  Indian  subcontinent  or  the
Pacific Islands[.];
  (E) A PERSON WITH A DISABILITY AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION TWENTY-ONE OF
SECTION TWO HUNDRED NINETY-TWO OF THIS CHAPTER.
  S  2.  This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that
the amendments to subdivision 8 of section 310 of the executive law made
by section one of this act shall  not  affect  the  expiration  of  such
section and shall be deemed to expire therewith.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14578-01-4

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