Bill Text: NY S03932 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that no professional sporting competition or event shall be permitted, if such event is sponsored by an organization or sports governing body where in the year prior to such competition, such organization excluded players or teams based on race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity or national origin.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-16 - PRINT NUMBER 3932A [S03932 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S03932-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        3932--A
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     April 6, 2009
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       Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes  --  recommitted  to
         the  Committee  on  Codes  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 civil rights law, in relation to prohibiting certain
         professional sporting competitions or events in New York state
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
    2  the "equal playing field act".
    3    S  2.  The civil rights law is amended by adding a new section 79-n to
    4  read as follows:
    5    S 79-N. PROFESSIONAL SPORTING COMPETITIONS OR EVENTS. NO  PROFESSIONAL
    6  SPORTING  COMPETITION,  CONTEST  OR EVENT SHALL BE PERMITTED IN NEW YORK
    7  STATE THAT IS SPONSORED OR  SANCTIONED  BY  AN  ORGANIZATION  OR  SPORTS
    8  GOVERNING  BODY  WHERE IN THE YEAR PRIOR TO SUCH NEW YORK STATE COMPETI-
    9  TION, CONTEST OR EVENT  ANY  OTHER  PROFESSIONAL  SPORTING  COMPETITION,
   10  CONTEST  OR EVENT SPONSORED OR SANCTIONED BY SUCH ORGANIZATION OR SPORTS
   11  GOVERNING BODY EXCLUDED PLAYERS OR TEAMS BASED ON RACE, RELIGION, SEXUAL
   12  ORIENTATION, ETHNICITY, CITIZENSHIP OR NATIONAL ORIGIN.
   13    S 3. This act shall take effect October 1, 2010.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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