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tic violence, in receiving, classifying, disposing or otherwise acting
upon applications for its services or in referring an applicant or
applicants to an employer or employers.
(c) For a labor organization, because of the age, race, creed, color,
national origin, citizenship or immigration status, sexual orientation,
gender identity or expression, military status, sex, CASTE, disability,
predisposing genetic characteristics, familial status, marital status,
or status as a victim of domestic violence, of any individual, to
exclude or to expel from its membership such individual or to discrimi-
nate in any way against any of its members or against any employer or
any individual employed by an employer.
(d) For any employer or employment agency to print or circulate or
cause to be printed or circulated any statement, advertisement or publi-
cation, or to use any form of application for employment or to make any
inquiry in connection with prospective employment, which expresses
directly or indirectly, any limitation, specification or discrimination
as to age, race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immi-
gration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, mili-
tary status, sex, CASTE, disability, predisposing genetic character-
istics, familial status, marital status, or status as a victim of
domestic violence, or any intent to make any such limitation, specifica-
tion or discrimination, unless based upon a bona fide occupational qual-
ification; provided, however, that neither this paragraph nor any
provision of this chapter or other law shall be construed to prohibit
the department of civil service or the department of personnel of any
city containing more than one county from requesting information from
applicants for civil service examinations concerning any of the afore-
mentioned characteristics, other than sexual orientation, for the
purpose of conducting studies to identify and resolve possible problems
in recruitment and testing of members of minority groups to ensure the
fairest possible and equal opportunities for employment in the civil
service for all persons, regardless of age, race, creed, color, national
origin, citizenship or immigration status, sexual orientation or gender
identity or expression, military status, sex, CASTE, disability, predis-
posing genetic characteristics, familial status, or marital status.
(h) For an employer, licensing agency, employment agency or labor
organization to subject any individual to harassment because of an indi-
vidual's age, race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immi-
gration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, mili-
tary status, sex, CASTE, disability, predisposing genetic
characteristics, familial status, marital status, status as a victim of
domestic violence, or because the individual has opposed any practices
forbidden under this article or because the individual has filed a
complaint, testified or assisted in any proceeding under this article,
regardless of whether such harassment would be considered severe or
pervasive under precedent applied to harassment claims. Such harassment
is an unlawful discriminatory practice when it subjects an individual to
inferior terms, conditions or privileges of employment because of the
individual's membership in one or more of these protected categories.
The fact that such individual did not make a complaint about the harass-
ment to such employer, licensing agency, employment agency or labor
organization shall not be determinative of whether such employer,
licensing agency, employment agency or labor organization shall be
liable. Nothing in this section shall imply that an employee must demon-
strate the existence of an individual to whom the employee's treatment
must be compared. It shall be an affirmative defense to liability under
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this subdivision that the harassing conduct does not rise above the
level of what a reasonable victim of discrimination with the same
protected characteristic or characteristics would consider petty slights
or trivial inconveniences.
§ 3. Paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) of subdivision 1-a of section 296 of
the executive law, as separately amended by chapters 202 and 748 of the
laws of 2022, are amended to read as follows:
(b) To deny to or withhold from any person because of race, creed,
color, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, sexual orien-
tation, gender identity or expression, military status, sex, CASTE, age,
disability, familial status, marital status, or status as a victim of
domestic violence, the right to be admitted to or participate in a guid-
ance program, an apprenticeship training program, on-the-job training
program, executive training program, or other occupational training or
retraining program;
(c) To discriminate against any person in [his or her] pursuit of such
programs or to discriminate against such a person in the terms, condi-
tions or privileges of such programs because of race, creed, color,
national origin, citizenship or immigration status, sexual orientation,
gender identity or expression, military status, sex, CASTE, age, disa-
bility, familial status, marital status, or status as a victim of domes-
tic violence;
(d) To print or circulate or cause to be printed or circulated any
statement, advertisement or publication, or to use any form of applica-
tion for such programs or to make any inquiry in connection with such
program which expresses, directly or indirectly, any limitation, spec-
ification or discrimination as to race, creed, color, national origin,
citizenship or immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity
or expression, military status, sex, CASTE, age, disability, familial
status, marital status, or status as a victim of domestic violence, or
any intention to make any such limitation, specification or discrimi-
nation, unless based on a bona fide occupational qualification.
§ 4. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 296 of the executive
law, paragraph (a) as separately amended by chapters 202 and 748 of the
laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
(a) It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for any person,
being the owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, superintendent, agent or
employee of any place of public accommodation, resort or amusement,
because of the race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immi-
gration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, mili-
tary status, sex, CASTE, disability, marital status, or status as a
victim of domestic violence, of any person, directly or indirectly, to
refuse, withhold from or deny to such person any of the accommodations,
advantages, facilities or privileges thereof, including the extension of
credit, or, directly or indirectly, to publish, circulate, issue,
display, post or mail any written or printed communication, notice or
advertisement, to the effect that any of the accommodations, advantages,
facilities and privileges of any such place shall be refused, withheld
from or denied to any person on account of race, creed, color, national
origin, citizenship or immigration status, sexual orientation, gender
identity or expression, military status, sex, CASTE, disability or mari-
tal status, or that the patronage or custom thereat of any person of or
purporting to be of any particular race, creed, color, national origin,
citizenship or immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity
or expression, military status, sex, CASTE, or marital status, or having
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a disability is unwelcome, objectionable or not acceptable, desired or
solicited.
§ 5. Paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (c-1) of subdivision 2-a of section
296 of the executive law, as separately amended by chapters 202 and 748
of the laws of 2022, are amended to read as follows:
(a) To refuse to sell, rent or lease or otherwise to deny to or with-
hold from any person or group of persons such housing accommodations
because of the race, creed, color, disability, national origin, citizen-
ship or immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or
expression, military status, age, sex, CASTE, marital status, status as
a victim of domestic violence, lawful source of income or familial
status of such person or persons, or to represent that any housing
accommodation or land is not available for inspection, sale, rental or
lease when in fact it is so available.
(b) To discriminate against any person because of [his or her] race,
creed, color, disability, national origin, citizenship or immigration
status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military
status, age, sex, CASTE, marital status, status as a victim of domestic
violence, lawful source of income or familial status in the terms,
conditions or privileges of any publicly-assisted housing accommodations
or in the furnishing of facilities or services in connection therewith.
(c) To cause to be made any written or oral inquiry or record concern-
ing the race, creed, color, disability, national origin, citizenship or
immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,
membership in the reserve armed forces of the United States or in the
organized militia of the state, age, sex, CASTE, marital status, status
as a victim of domestic violence, lawful source of income or familial
status of a person seeking to rent or lease any publicly-assisted hous-
ing accommodation; provided, however, that nothing in this subdivision
shall prohibit a member of the reserve armed forces of the United States
or in the organized militia of the state from voluntarily disclosing
such membership.
(c-1) To print or circulate or cause to be printed or circulated any
statement, advertisement or publication, or to use any form of applica-
tion for the purchase, rental or lease of such housing accommodation or
to make any record or inquiry in connection with the prospective
purchase, rental or lease of such a housing accommodation which
expresses, directly or indirectly, any limitation, specification or
discrimination as to race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or
immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,
military status, sex, CASTE, age, disability, marital status, status as
a victim of domestic violence, lawful source of income or familial
status, or any intent to make any such limitation, specification or
discrimination.
§ 6. Subdivisions 3-b, 4 and 13 of section 296 of the executive law,
as separately amended by chapters 202 and 748 of the laws of 2022, are
amended to read as follows:
3-b. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for any real
estate broker, real estate salesperson or employee or agent thereof or
any other individual, corporation, partnership or organization for the
purpose of inducing a real estate transaction from which any such person
or any of its stockholders or members may benefit financially, to repre-
sent that a change has occurred or will or may occur in the composition
with respect to race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or
immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,
military status, sex, CASTE, disability, marital status, status as a
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victim of domestic violence, or familial status of the owners or occu-
pants in the block, neighborhood or area in which the real property is
located, and to represent, directly or indirectly, that this change will
or may result in undesirable consequences in the block, neighborhood or
area in which the real property is located, including but not limited to
the lowering of property values, an increase in criminal or anti-social
behavior, or a decline in the quality of schools or other facilities.
4. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for an educational
institution to deny the use of its facilities to any person otherwise
qualified, or to permit the harassment of any student or applicant, by
reason of [his] race, color, religion, disability, national origin,
citizenship or immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity
or expression, military status, sex, CASTE, age, marital status, or
status as a victim of domestic violence, except that any such institu-
tion which establishes or maintains a policy of educating persons of one
sex exclusively may admit students of only one sex.
13. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice (i) for any person
to boycott or blacklist, or to refuse to buy from, sell to or trade
with, or otherwise discriminate against any person, because of the race,
creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, sexual
orientation, gender identity or expression, military status, sex, CASTE,
status as a victim of domestic violence, disability, or familial status,
or of such person, or of such person's partners, members, stockholders,
directors, officers, managers, superintendents, agents, employees, busi-
ness associates, suppliers or customers, or (ii) for any person wilfully
to do any act or refrain from doing any act which enables any such
person to take such action. This subdivision shall not apply to:
(a) Boycotts connected with labor disputes; or
(b) Boycotts to protest unlawful discriminatory practices.
§ 7. Paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d) of subdivision 5 of section 296
of the executive law, as separately amended by chapters 202 and 748 of
the laws of 2022, are amended to read as follows:
(a) It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for the owner,
lessee, sub-lessee, assignee, or managing agent of, or other person
having the right to sell, rent or lease a housing accommodation,
constructed or to be constructed, or any agent or employee thereof:
(1) To refuse to sell, rent, lease or otherwise to deny to or withhold
from any person or group of persons such a housing accommodation because
of the race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immigration
status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military
status, sex, CASTE, age, disability, marital status, status as a victim
of domestic violence, lawful source of income or familial status of such
person or persons, or to represent that any housing accommodation or
land is not available for inspection, sale, rental or lease when in fact
it is so available.
(2) To discriminate against any person because of race, creed, color,
national origin, citizenship or immigration status, sexual orientation,
gender identity or expression, military status, sex, CASTE, age, disa-
bility, marital status, status as a victim of domestic violence, lawful
source of income or familial status in the terms, conditions or privi-
leges of the sale, rental or lease of any such housing accommodation or
in the furnishing of facilities or services in connection therewith.
(3) To print or circulate or cause to be printed or circulated any
statement, advertisement or publication, or to use any form of applica-
tion for the purchase, rental or lease of such housing accommodation or
to make any record or inquiry in connection with the prospective
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purchase, rental or lease of such a housing accommodation which
expresses, directly or indirectly, any limitation, specification or
discrimination as to race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or
immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,
military status, sex, CASTE, age, disability, marital status, status as
a victim of domestic violence, lawful source of income or familial
status, or any intent to make any such limitation, specification or
discrimination.
(4) (i) The provisions of subparagraphs one and two of this paragraph
shall not apply (1) to the rental of a housing accommodation in a build-
ing which contains housing accommodations for not more than two families
living independently of each other, if the owner resides in one of such
housing accommodations, (2) to the restriction of the rental of all
rooms in a housing accommodation to individuals of the same sex [or],
(3) to the rental of a room or rooms in a housing accommodation, if such
rental is by the occupant of the housing accommodation or by the owner
of the housing accommodation and the owner resides in such housing
accommodation or (4) solely with respect to age and familial status to
the restriction of the sale, rental or lease of housing accommodations
exclusively to persons sixty-two years of age or older and the spouse of
any such person, or for housing intended and operated for occupancy by
at least one person fifty-five years of age or older per unit. In deter-
mining whether housing is intended and operated for occupancy by persons
fifty-five years of age or older, Sec. 807(b) (2) (c) (42 U.S.C. 3607
(b) (2) (c)) of the federal Fair Housing Act of 1988, as amended, shall
apply. However, such rental property shall no longer be exempt from the
provisions of subparagraphs one and two of this paragraph if there is
unlawful discriminatory conduct pursuant to subparagraph three of this
paragraph.
(ii) The provisions of subparagraphs one, two, and three of this para-
graph shall not apply (1) to the restriction of the rental of all rooms
in a housing accommodation to individuals of the same sex, (2) to the
rental of a room or rooms in a housing accommodation, if such rental is
by the occupant of the housing accommodation or by the owner of the
housing accommodation and the owner resides in such housing accommo-
dation, or (3) solely with respect to age and familial status to the
restriction of the sale, rental or lease of housing accommodations
exclusively to persons sixty-two years of age or older and the spouse of
any such person, or for housing intended and operated for occupancy by
at least one person fifty-five years of age or older per unit. In deter-
mining whether housing is intended and operated for occupancy by persons
fifty-five years of age or older, Sec. 807(b) (2) (c) (42 U.S.C. 3607
(b) (2) (c)) of the federal Fair Housing Act of 1988, as amended, shall
apply.
(b) It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for the owner,
lessee, sub-lessee, or managing agent of, or other person having the
right of ownership or possession of or the right to sell, rent or lease,
land or commercial space:
(1) To refuse to sell, rent, lease or otherwise deny to or withhold
from any person or group of persons land or commercial space because of
the race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immigration
status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military
status, sex, CASTE, age, disability, marital status, status as a victim
of domestic violence, or familial status of such person or persons, or
to represent that any housing accommodation or land is not available for
inspection, sale, rental or lease when in fact it is so available;
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(2) To discriminate against any person because of race, creed, color,
national origin, citizenship or immigration status, sexual orientation,
gender identity or expression, military status, sex, CASTE, age, disa-
bility, marital status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or
familial status in the terms, conditions or privileges of the sale,
rental or lease of any such land or commercial space; or in the furnish-
ing of facilities or services in connection therewith;
(3) To print or circulate or cause to be printed or circulated any
statement, advertisement or publication, or to use any form of applica-
tion for the purchase, rental or lease of such land or commercial space
or to make any record or inquiry in connection with the prospective
purchase, rental or lease of such land or commercial space which
expresses, directly or indirectly, any limitation, specification or
discrimination as to race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or
immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,
military status, sex, CASTE, age, disability, marital status, status as
a victim of domestic violence, or familial status; or any intent to make
any such limitation, specification or discrimination[.]; OR
(4) With respect to age and familial status, the provisions of this
paragraph shall not apply to the restriction of the sale, rental or
lease of land or commercial space exclusively to persons fifty-five
years of age or older and the spouse of any such person, or to the
restriction of the sale, rental or lease of land to be used for the
construction, or location of housing accommodations exclusively for
persons sixty-two years of age or older, or intended and operated for
occupancy by at least one person fifty-five years of age or older per
unit. In determining whether housing is intended and operated for occu-
pancy by persons fifty-five years of age or older, Sec. 807(b) (2) (c)
(42 U.S.C. 3607(b) (2) (c)) of the federal Fair Housing Act of 1988, as
amended, shall apply.
(c) It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for any real
estate broker, real estate salesperson or employee or agent thereof:
(1) To refuse to sell, rent or lease any housing accommodation, land
or commercial space to any person or group of persons or to refuse to
negotiate for the sale, rental or lease, of any housing accommodation,
land or commercial space to any person or group of persons because of
the race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immigration
status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military
status, sex, CASTE, age, disability, marital status, status as a victim
of domestic violence, lawful source of income or familial status of such
person or persons, or to represent that any housing accommodation, land
or commercial space is not available for inspection, sale, rental or
lease when in fact it is so available, or otherwise to deny or withhold
any housing accommodation, land or commercial space or any facilities of
any housing accommodation, land or commercial space from any person or
group of persons because of the race, creed, color, national origin,
citizenship or immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity
or expression, military status, sex, CASTE, age, disability, marital
status, lawful source of income or familial status of such person or
persons.
(2) To print or circulate or cause to be printed or circulated any
statement, advertisement or publication, or to use any form of applica-
tion for the purchase, rental or lease of any housing accommodation,
land or commercial space or to make any record or inquiry in connection
with the prospective purchase, rental or lease of any housing accommo-
dation, land or commercial space which expresses, directly or indirect-
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ly, any limitation, specification, or discrimination as to race, creed,
color, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, sexual orien-
tation, gender identity or expression, military status, sex, CASTE, age,
disability, marital status, status as a victim of domestic violence,
lawful source of income or familial status; or any intent to make any
such limitation, specification or discrimination.
(3) With respect to age and familial status, the provisions of this
paragraph shall not apply to the restriction of the sale, rental or
lease of any housing accommodation, land or commercial space exclusively
to persons fifty-five years of age or older and the spouse of any such
person, or to the restriction of the sale, rental or lease of any hous-
ing accommodation or land to be used for the construction or location of
housing accommodations for persons sixty-two years of age or older, or
intended and operated for occupancy by at least one person fifty-five
years of age or older per unit. In determining whether housing is
intended and operated for occupancy by persons fifty-five years of age
or older, Sec. 807 (b) (2) (c) (42 U.S.C. 3607 (b) (2) (c)) of the
federal Fair Housing Act of 1988, as amended, shall apply.
(d) It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for any real
estate board, because of the race, creed, color, national origin, citi-
zenship or immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or
expression, military status, age, sex, CASTE, disability, marital
status, status as a victim of domestic violence, lawful source of income
or familial status of any individual who is otherwise qualified for
membership, to exclude or expel such individual from membership, or to
discriminate against such individual in the terms, conditions and privi-
leges of membership in such board.
§ 8. Subdivisions 1, 2 and 3 of section 296-a of the executive law, as
separately amended by chapters 202 and 748 of the laws of 2022, are
amended to read as follows:
1. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for any creditor or
any officer, agent or employee thereof:
a. In the case of applications for credit with respect to the
purchase, acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, repair or mainte-
nance of any housing accommodation, land or commercial space to discrim-
inate against any such applicant because of the race, creed, color,
national origin, citizenship or immigration status, sexual orientation,
gender identity or expression, military status, age, sex, CASTE, marital
status, status as a victim of domestic violence, disability, or familial
status of such applicant or applicants or any member, stockholder,
director, officer or employee of such applicant or applicants, or of the
prospective occupants or tenants of such housing accommodation, land or
commercial space, in the granting, withholding, extending or renewing,
or in the fixing of the rates, terms or conditions of, any such credit;
b. To discriminate in the granting, withholding, extending or renew-
ing, or in the fixing of the rates, terms or conditions of, any form of
credit, on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship
or immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or
expression, military status, age, sex, CASTE, marital status, status as
a victim of domestic violence, disability, or familial status;
c. To use any form of application for credit or use or make any record
or inquiry which expresses, directly or indirectly, any limitation,
specification, or discrimination as to race, creed, color, national
origin, citizenship or immigration status, sexual orientation, gender
identity or expression, military status, age, sex, CASTE, marital
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status, status as a victim of domestic violence, disability, or familial
status;
d. To make any inquiry of an [applicant concerning his or her] APPLI-
CANT'S capacity to reproduce, or [his or her] SUCH APPLICANT'S use or
advocacy of any form of birth control or family planning;
e. To refuse to consider sources of an applicant's income or to
subject an applicant's income to discounting, in whole or in part,
because of an applicant's race, creed, color, national origin, citizen-
ship or immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or
expression, military status, age, sex, CASTE, marital status, status as
a victim of domestic violence, childbearing potential, disability, or
familial status; OR
f. To discriminate against a married person because such person
neither uses nor is known by the surname of [his or her] THEIR spouse.
This paragraph shall not apply to any situation where the use of a
surname would constitute or result in a criminal act.
2. Without limiting the generality of subdivision one of this section,
it shall be considered discriminatory if, because of an applicant's or
class of applicants' race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or
immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,
military status, age, sex, CASTE, marital status, status as a victim of
domestic violence, disability, or familial status, (i) an applicant or
class of applicants is denied credit in circumstances where other appli-
cants of like overall credit worthiness are granted credit, or (ii)
special requirements or conditions, such as requiring co-obligors or
reapplication upon marriage, are imposed upon an applicant or class of
applicants in circumstances where similar requirements or conditions are
not imposed upon other applicants of like overall credit worthiness.
3. It shall not be considered discriminatory if credit differen-
tiations or decisions are based upon factually supportable, objective
differences in applicants' overall credit worthiness, which may include
reference to such factors as current income, assets and prior credit
history of such applicants, as well as reference to any other relevant
factually supportable data; provided, however, that no creditor shall
consider, in evaluating the credit worthiness of an applicant, aggregate
statistics or assumptions relating to race, creed, color, national
origin, citizenship or immigration status, sexual orientation, gender
identity or expression, military status, sex, CASTE, marital status,
status as a victim of domestic violence or disability, or to the likeli-
hood of any group of persons bearing or rearing children, or for that
reason receiving diminished or interrupted income in the future.
§ 9. Subdivision 2 and paragraph b of subdivision 3 of section 296-c
of the executive law, subdivision 2 as separately amended by chapters
202 and 748 of the laws of 2022, paragraphs a, b and c of subdivision 2
and paragraph b of subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 305 of the laws
of 2023, are amended to read as follows:
2. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for an employer to:
a. refuse to hire or employ or to bar or to discharge from internship
an intern or to discriminate against such intern in terms, conditions or
privileges of employment as an intern because of the intern's age, race,
creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, sexual
orientation, gender identity or expression, military status, sex, CASTE,
disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, marital status, or
status as a victim of domestic violence;
b. discriminate against an intern in receiving, classifying, disposing
or otherwise acting upon applications for internships because of the
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intern's age, race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immi-
gration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, mili-
tary status, sex, CASTE, disability, predisposing genetic character-
istics, marital status, or status as a victim of domestic violence;
c. print or circulate or cause to be printed or circulated any state-
ment, advertisement or publication, or to use any form of application
for employment as an intern or to make any inquiry in connection with
prospective employment, which expresses directly or indirectly, any
limitation, specification or discrimination as to age, race, creed,
color, national origin, citizenship or immigration status, sexual orien-
tation, gender identity or expression, military status, sex, CASTE,
disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, marital status or
status as a victim of domestic violence, or any intent to make any such
limitation, specification or discrimination, unless based upon a bona
fide occupational qualification; provided, however, that neither this
paragraph nor any provision of this chapter or other law shall be
construed to prohibit the department of civil service or the department
of personnel of any city containing more than one county from requesting
information from applicants for civil service internships or examina-
tions concerning any of the aforementioned characteristics, other than
sexual orientation, for the purpose of conducting studies to identify
and resolve possible problems in recruitment and testing of members of
minority groups to ensure the fairest possible and equal opportunities
for employment in the civil service for all persons, regardless of age,
race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immigration status,
sexual orientation, military status, sex, CASTE, disability, predispos-
ing genetic characteristics, marital status or status as a victim of
domestic violence;
d. to discharge, expel or otherwise discriminate against any person
[because he or she] WHO has opposed any practices forbidden under this
article or [because he or she] WHO has filed a complaint, testified or
assisted in any proceeding under this article; or
e. to compel an intern who is pregnant to take a leave of absence,
unless the intern is prevented by such pregnancy from performing the
activities involved in the job or occupation in a reasonable manner.
b. subject an intern to unwelcome harassment based on age, sex, CASTE,
race, creed, color, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,
military status, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, mari-
tal status, status as a victim of domestic violence, national origin, or
citizenship or immigration status, or where such harassment has the
purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with the intern's work
performance by creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working
environment.
§ 10. This act shall not annul, alter, affect or exempt any employer
subject to the provisions of this act from complying with the laws,
ordinances, rules or regulations of any locality, except to the extent
that such laws, ordinances, rules or regulations are inconsistent with
any provision of this act, but no such law, ordinance, rule or regu-
lation shall be considered inconsistent if it affords equal or greater
protection to the employee.
§ 11. This act shall take effect immediately.
