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Assembly Bill A1435

2019-2020 Legislative Session

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

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2019-A1435 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §310, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A9305
2015-2016: A2910
2017-2018: A11114
2021-2022: A2467

2019-A1435 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2019-A1435 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1435
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 15, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- 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.
   § 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.
                                                            LBD06528-01-9

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