Bill Text: NY S01934 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits denial of entry to a public place or denial of service solely on the basis of wearing a mask in public during an epidemic or a pandemic.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S01934 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01934-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1934

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. BAILEY, MYRIE -- 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 denial  of
          entry  to  a  public place or denial of service solely on the basis of
          wearing a mask in public during an epidemic or a pandemic

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  296  of the executive law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (i) to read as follows:
     3    (i) For  any  person,  agency,  bureau,  corporation  or  association,
     4  including  the  state  and  any political subdivision thereof, to deny a
     5  person entry to a public place or deny a person service  solely  on  the
     6  basis  of  wearing  a  mask  in  public  during a state emergency for an
     7  epidemic or a pandemic.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






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