Bill Text: NY A00735 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 735 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting discrimination against a person based upon weight.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A00735 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00735-Introduced.html

                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           735
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to prohibiting  discrimi-
          nation against a person based upon weight
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  296-e
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  296-e.  Unlawful discriminatory practices relating to the weight of
     4  an individual. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice:
     5    1. For an employer or licensing agency,  because  of  an  individual's
     6  weight,  to  refuse  to  hire  or  employ or to bar or to discharge from
     7  employment such individual or to discriminate against such individual in
     8  compensation or in terms, conditions or privileges of employment.
     9    2. For an employment agency to  discriminate  against  any  individual
    10  because  of  weight  in  receiving,  classifying, disposing or otherwise
    11  acting upon applications for its services or in referring  an  applicant
    12  or applicants to an employer or employers.
    13    3.  For a labor organization, because of the weight of any individual,
    14  to exclude or to  expel  from  its  membership  such  individual  or  to
    15  discriminate  in  any  way  against  any  of  its members or against any
    16  employer or any individual employed by an employer.
    17    4. For any employer or employment agency  to  print  or  circulate  or
    18  cause to be printed or circulated any statement, advertisement or publi-
    19  cation,  or to use any form of application for employment or to make any
    20  inquiry in  connection  with  prospective  employment,  which  expresses
    21  directly  or indirectly, any limitation, specification or discrimination
    22  as to weight, or any intent to make any such  limitation,  specification
    23  or discrimination, unless based upon a bona fide occupational qualifica-
    24  tion.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04780-01-9

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     1    5.  For  any  person,  being  the  owner, lessee, proprietor, manager,
     2  superintendent, agent or employee of any place of public  accommodation,
     3  resort  or  amusement,  because of the weight of any person, directly or
     4  indirectly, to refuse, withhold from or deny to such person any  of  the
     5  accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges thereof.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.