Assembly Bill A1862

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to protections against anti-Semitism in the human rights law and the hate crimes statute

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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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2023-A1862 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3275
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§292 & 297, Exec L; amd §485.05, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S4932
2021-2022: A4562, S4563

2023-A1862 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides protections against anti-Semitism in the human rights law and the hate crimes statute.

2023-A1862 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1862
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. LAVINE, SEAWRIGHT -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law and the  penal  law,  in  relation  to
   protections against anti-Semitism in the human rights law
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Legislative findings and  determinations.  The  legislature
 finds  and determines that discrimination and attacks have been unfairly
 and wrongfully levied and directed against the Jewish people  and  their
 faith for generations, from ancient times to the present. Such discrimi-
 nation  and  attacks,  manifesting themselves through acts of anti-Semi-
 tism, have proven to be among the most despicable acts of mankind, call-
 ing witness to countless  acts  of  death,  deprivation,  injustice  and
 holocaust.
   The  legislature further finds and determines that anti-Semitism sadly
 remains  today,  still  a  persistent,  disturbing  problem  in  certain
 segments  of  society,  political movements, on college campuses, and by
 select disturbed and/or seriously misguided or hateful individuals.
   The legislature also finds and determines that acts  of  anti-Semitism
 have  even  very  recently  resulted in homicidal attacks against Jewish
 places of worship in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and in the defacement  and
 mutilation of publicly displayed photographs in New York City of a prom-
 inent and respected Jewish member of the United States Supreme Court.
   The legislature additionally finds and determines that both the feder-
 al  Department of Justice, and the federal Department of Education, have
 properly concluded that both state and federal law  prohibits  discrimi-
 nation  against persons of the Jewish faith, as well as members of other
 religious groups, when such discrimination is based  on  the  actual  or
 perceived religious faith, shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics, or
 when  the  discrimination is based on actual or perceived citizenship or

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02821-01-3
 A. 1862                             2
              

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