Bill Text: NY S02271 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits an employer, licensing agency or employment agency from requesting or requiring that a prospective employee disclose their age, date of birth or date of graduation from an educational institution on an initial employment application or during an interview, except in the case of a bona fide occupational qualification or need.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-16 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S02271 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S02271-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2271

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 16, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. KRUEGER, MAY, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, WEBB -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Investigations and Government Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to prohibiting an employ-
          er, licensing agency or employment agency from requesting or requiring
          that  a prospective employee disclose their age, date of birth or date
          of graduation from an educational institution on an initial employment
          application or during an interview, except in the case of a bona  fide
          occupational qualification or need

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3-a of section 296  of  the  executive  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (a-1) to read as follows:
     3    (a-1)  For  any  employer,  licensing  agency  or employment agency to
     4  request or require that a prospective employee disclose their age,  date
     5  of  birth  or  date  of graduation from an educational institution on an
     6  initial employment application or during an  interview,  except  in  the
     7  case of a bona fide occupational qualification or need.
     8    §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first January next succeeding
     9  the date upon which it shall have become a law.  Effective  immediately,
    10  the  addition,  amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
    11  sary for the implementation of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are
    12  authorized to be made and completed on or before such date.



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