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Assembly Bill A11596

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Adds libraries to the list of sensitive locations for immigration enforcement purposes

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2025-A11596 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Civil Rights Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §29, Civ Rts L

2025-A11596 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Adds libraries to the list of sensitive locations for immigration enforcement purposes.

2025-A11596 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11596
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 5, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Romero) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to adding libraries to
   the list of sensitive locations for immigration enforcement purposes
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subparagraph  (xii)  of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of
 section 29 of the civil rights law is  renumbered  subparagraph  (xiii),
 subparagraph  (xi) of such paragraph, as added by section 2 of subpart E
 of part LL of chapter 55 of the laws of  2026,  is  amended  and  a  new
 subparagraph (xii) is added to read as follows:
   (xi) park, playground, athletic field, or recreation center; [or]
   (XII) LIBRARY; OR
   §  2. Severability.   If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision,
 section, or part of this act shall be adjudged by any court of competent
 jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect,  impair,  or
 invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation
 to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section, or part there-
 of  directly  involved  in  the controversy in which such judgment shall
 have been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of the legis-
 lature that this act would  have  been  enacted  even  if  such  invalid
 provisions had not been included herein.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16060-01-6

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