Bill Text: NY A10191 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prevents housing discrimination based on wage history, medical history, and health conditions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-10 - referred to governmental operations [A10191 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10191-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10191

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 10, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Raga) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in  relation  to  preventing  housing
          discrimination  based  on  wage  history,  medical history, and health
          conditions

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of subdivision 2-a of section
     2  296 of the executive law, as separately amended by chapters 202 and  748
     3  of the laws of 2022, are amended to read as follows:
     4    (a)  To refuse to sell, rent or lease or otherwise to deny to or with-
     5  hold from any person or group of  persons  such  housing  accommodations
     6  because of the race, creed, color, disability, national origin, citizen-
     7  ship  or  immigration  status,  sexual  orientation,  gender identity or
     8  expression, military status, age,  sex,  marital  status,  status  as  a
     9  victim  of  domestic  violence,  lawful  source of income, wage history,
    10  medical history, health conditions, or familial status of such person or
    11  persons, or to represent that any housing accommodation or land  is  not
    12  available  for  inspection,  sale, rental or lease when in fact it is so
    13  available.
    14    (b) To discriminate against any person because of  his  or  her  race,
    15  creed,  color,  disability,  national origin, citizenship or immigration
    16  status, sexual orientation,  gender  identity  or  expression,  military
    17  status,  age,  sex,  marital  status,  status  as  a  victim of domestic
    18  violence, lawful source of income, wage history, medical history, health
    19  conditions, or familial status in the terms, conditions or privileges of
    20  any publicly-assisted housing accommodations or  in  the  furnishing  of
    21  facilities or services in connection therewith.
    22    (c) To cause to be made any written or oral inquiry or record concern-
    23  ing  the race, creed, color, disability, national origin, citizenship or
    24  immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity  or  expression,
    25  membership  in  the  reserve armed forces of the United States or in the
    26  organized militia of the state, age, sex, marital status,  status  as  a
    27  victim  of  domestic  violence,  lawful  source of income, wage history,

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  medical history, health conditions, or familial status of a person seek-
     2  ing to  rent  or  lease  any  publicly-assisted  housing  accommodation;
     3  provided,  however,  that  nothing  in this subdivision shall prohibit a
     4  member of the reserve armed forces of the United States or in the organ-
     5  ized militia of the state from voluntarily disclosing such membership.
     6    §  2.  Subdivision 5 of section 296 of the executive law is amended by
     7  adding a new paragraph (h) to read as follows:
     8    (h) It shall be an unlawful discriminatory  practice  for  any  person
     9  offering  or  providing housing accommodations, land or commercial space
    10  as described in paragraphs (a), (b), and  (c)  of  this  subdivision  to
    11  refuse to sell, rent or lease any housing accommodation, land or commer-
    12  cial  space to any person because of such person's wage history, medical
    13  history, or health conditions.
    14    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.