Bill Text: NY A01031 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the discrimination of persons based on their religious attire in recreational water parks, including, but not limited to, beaches, lakes, pools and other water facilities operated on land or water for recreational use.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A01031 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A01031-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1031

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced by M. of A. RAMOS, FALL, SAYEGH, COLTON, EPSTEIN, COOK, CRUZ,
          REYES,  EICHENSTEIN, WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend  the  civil  rights  law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting
          discrimination in recreational water parks due to religious attire

          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  40-h to read as follows:
     3    §  40-h.  Religious  discrimination  at  recreational  water parks. No
     4  person, agency, bureau, corporation or  association,  being  the  owner,
     5  lessee,  proprietor,  manager,  superintendent, agent or employee of any
     6  recreational water park as defined in this  section  shall  require  any
     7  person  to  violate  or forgo a sincerely held practice of such person's
     8  religion, including but not limited to the wearing of any attire, cloth-
     9  ing including, but not limited to, modesty swimsuits or full body  swim-
    10  suits,  or  facial  hair  in  accordance  with  the requirements of such
    11  person's religion.
    12    Recreational water park within  the  meaning  of  this  section  shall
    13  include,  but  not  be limited to, beaches, lakes, pools and other water
    14  facilities, operated on land or water for recreational use.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    16  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00397-01-5