Bill Text: NY A03931 | 2023-2024 | 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 17-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A03931 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03931-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3931

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 8, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. RAMOS, FALL, SAYEGH, COLTON, EPSTEIN, COOK, DICK-
          ENS, 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 his or her reli-
     8  gion, including but not limited to the wearing of any  attire,  clothing
     9  including, but not limited to, modesty swimsuits or full body swimsuits,
    10  or  facial  hair in accordance with the requirements of his or her reli-
    11  gion.
    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.
                                                                   LBD08238-01-3