Senate Bill S5595

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Expands definition of place of public accommodation

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations Committee


  • 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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2017-S5595 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3163
Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §292, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S1740, A4497
2011-2012: S1791, A5359
2013-2014: S641, A2507
2015-2016: S3195, A2843
2019-2020: S3887, A3971
2021-2022: S4217, A2086

2017-S5595 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands definition of place of public accommodation, resort or amusement in relation to unlawful discriminatory practices.

2017-S5595 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S5595 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5595
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 19, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- 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 unlawful discriminato-
   ry practices
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.    Subdivision  9  of section 292 of the executive law, as
 amended by chapter 89 of the  laws  of  2015,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   9. The term "place of public accommodation, resort or amusement" shall
 include,  regardless of whether the owner or operator of such place is a
 state or local government entity or  a  private  individual  or  entity,
 except  as  hereinafter specified, all places included in the meaning of
 such terms as: inns,  taverns,  road  houses,  hotels,  motels,  whether
 conducted  for the entertainment of transient guests or for the accommo-
 dation of those seeking health, recreation or rest, or  restaurants,  or
 eating  houses,  or  any place where food is sold for consumption on the
 premises; buffets, saloons, barrooms, or any store,  park  or  enclosure
 where  spirituous  or  malt liquors are sold; ice cream parlors, confec-
 tionaries, soda fountains, and all stores where ice cream, ice and fruit
 preparations or their derivatives, or where beverages of  any  kind  are
 retailed  for  consumption  on the premises; wholesale and retail stores
 and establishments dealing with goods or services of any  kind,  dispen-
 saries,  clinics,  hospitals, bath-houses, swimming pools, laundries and
 all other cleaning establishments, barber shops, beauty  parlors,  thea-
 tres,  motion picture houses, airdromes, roof gardens, music halls, race
 courses, skating rinks, amusement and recreation parks,  trailer  camps,
 resort  camps, fairs, bowling alleys, golf courses, gymnasiums, shooting
 galleries, billiard and pool parlors; garages,  all  public  conveyances
 operated  on  land  or  water or in the air, as well as the stations and

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

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