Bill Text: NY S00964 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 964

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides that no state or local agency, or any agent thereof, may use any funds, facilities, property, equipment or personnel of such agency to investigate, enforce or provide assistance in the investigation or enforcement of any federal program requiring registration of individuals, or maintaining a database of individuals, on the basis of race, color, creed, gender, sexual orientation, religion or national or ethnic origin.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - REFERRED TO CODES [S00964 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S00964-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           964

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. HOYLMAN-SIGAL, BAILEY, JACKSON, KAVANAGH, KRUEGER,
          SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed,  and  when  printed  to  be
          committed to the Committee on Codes

        AN  ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to the prohibition on
          certain databases and registries

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

     1    Section  1.  The  civil  rights law is amended by adding a new section
     2  79-r to read as follows:
     3    § 79-r. Prohibition on certain databases and registries.  No state  or
     4  local agency, or any agent thereof, may use any funds, facilities, prop-
     5  erty,  equipment  or personnel of such agency to investigate, enforce or
     6  provide assistance in the investigation or enforcement  of  any  federal
     7  program requiring registration of individuals, or maintaining a database
     8  of  individuals,  on  the  basis  of  race, color, creed, gender, sexual
     9  orientation, religion, or national or ethnic origin.   For the  purposes
    10  of  this  section,  the  term "agency" shall mean any state or municipal
    11  department,  board,  bureau,  division,  commission,  committee,  public
    12  authority,  public  corporation,  council,  office or other governmental
    13  entity performing a governmental or proprietary function for  the  state
    14  or any one or more municipalities thereof.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03209-01-5