Bill Text: NY S03185 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires the collection of certain demographic information by certain state agencies, boards and commissions.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-25 - PRINT NUMBER 3185A [S03185 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S03185-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3185--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 3, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. STAVISKY, MARTINS, MONTGOMERY, PARKER, PERKINS, SQUADRON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance -- recommitted to the Committee on Finance in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the collection of certain demographic information by certain state agen- cies, boards and commissions The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature hereby finds and 2 declares the following: 3 (a) Asian Americans as well as Native Hawaiians and other Pacific 4 Islanders are an incredibly diverse group. Due to this diversity, the 5 United States Office of Management and Budget's Statistical Policy 6 Directive No. 15, entitled Race and Ethnic Standards for Federal Statis- 7 tics and Administrative Reporting, separated the "Asian and Pacific 8 Islander" category into two distinct and separate categories, now called 9 "Asians" and "Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders," and these 10 two distinct categories were used in the 2000 United States Census. The 11 United States Census Bureau currently reports data for more than 20 12 different ethnicities within these two categories. 13 (b) While Asian Americans as well as Native Hawaiians and other Pacif- 14 ic Islanders are often misrepresented as a homogeneous group, they are 15 an extremely diverse group, with ethnicities from over 30 different 16 countries. Although Asian American as well as Native Hawaiian and other 17 Pacific Islander communities in this state share geographical and 18 cultural commonalities, they also experience diverse social, educa- 19 tional, health, and economic differences that are unique to their 20 respective communities. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00397-02-6