Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Mar 20, 2018 | referred to investigations and government operations delivered to senate passed assembly |
Jan 03, 2018 | ordered to third reading cal.355 returned to assembly died in senate |
Mar 22, 2017 | referred to investigations and government operations delivered to senate passed assembly |
Mar 13, 2017 | ordered to third reading rules cal.29 rules report cal.29 reported reported referred to rules reported referred to codes |
Feb 06, 2017 | referred to governmental operations |
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Co-Sponsors
Kevin Cahill
Amy Paulin
Luis R. Sepúlveda
Philip Ramos
Multi-Sponsors
Peter Abbate
Edward Braunstein
William Colton
Vivian Cook
A4977 (ACTIVE) - Details
A4977 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4977 2017-2018 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 6, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN, CAHILL, PAULIN, SEPULVEDA, RAMOS, M. G. MILLER, QUART, AUBRY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, BRAUNSTEIN, COLTON, COOK, DAVILA, HIKIND, HOOPER, LAVINE, LUPINACCI, MOSLEY, ORTIZ, PERRY, RIVERA, SOLAGES, WEINSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to prohibiting discrimi- nation against religious attire THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 10 of section 296 of the exec- utive law, as amended by chapter 539 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows: (a) It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for any employer, or an employee or agent thereof, to impose upon a person as a condition of obtaining or retaining employment, including opportunities for promotion, advancement or transfers, any terms or conditions that would require such person to violate or forego a sincerely held practice of his or her religion, including but not limited to the observance of any particular day or days or any portion thereof as a sabbath or other holy day in accordance with the requirements of his or her religion OR THE WEARING OF ANY ATTIRE, CLOTHING, OR FACIAL HAIR IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF HIS OR HER RELIGION, unless, after engaging in a bona fide effort, the employer demonstrates that it is unable to reasonably accommodate the employee's or prospective employee's sincerely held religious observance or practice without undue hardship on the conduct of the employer's business. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, an employee shall not be entitled to premium wages or premium benefits for work performed during hours to which such premium wages or premium benefits would ordinarily be applicable, if the employ- ee is working during such hours only as an accommodation to his or her sincerely held religious requirements. Nothing in this paragraph or EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.