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Senate Bill S5963

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to reasonable accommodations for protected classes

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2015-S5963 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง296, Exec L (as proposed in S.4 & A.7317)

2015-S5963 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to reasonable accommodations for protected classes.

2015-S5963 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S5963 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5963

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              June 14, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- read twice and ordered printed, and
  when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation  to  reasonable  accommo-
  dations for protected classes

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

  Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 3 of section 296 of the execu-
tive law, as amended by a chapter of the  laws  of  2015,  amending  the
executive  law  relating to the unlawful discriminatory practice because
of familial status, as proposed in legislative  bills  numbers  S.4  and
A.7317, is amended to read as follows:
  (c)  Nothing  in this subdivision regarding "reasonable accommodation"
or in the chapter of the laws of two thousand fifteen which  added  this
paragraph  shall  alter, diminish, increase, or create new or additional
requirements to accommodate protected classes [pursuant to this article]
other than the additional requirements as explicitly set forth  in  such
chapter of the laws of two thousand fifteen.
  S  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
manner as a chapter of the laws of  2015,  amending  the  executive  law
relating  to  the  unlawful  discriminatory practice because of familial
status, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.4 and  A.7317,  takes
effect.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11671-01-5

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