New York S 5163: Prohibits discrimination based on status as a person with a prior conviction

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S05163 Summary:

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Prohibits discrimination based on status as a person with a prior conviction.

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02/19/2025REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

01/07/2026REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 5163

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 19, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
 ment Operations

 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to prohibiting discrimi-
 nation based on status as a person with a prior conviction

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 1-a, paragraph (a) of subdivision 2,
 2 paragraphs (a), (b) , (c) and (c-1) of subdivision 2-a, subdivisions 3-b
 3 and 4, paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d) of subdivision 5, paragraph (a)
 4 of subdivision 9 and subdivision 13 of section 296 of the executive law,
 5 as separately amended by chapters 202 and 748 of the laws of 2022, are
 6 amended to read as follows:
 7 1. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice:
 8 (a) For an employer or licensing agency, because of an individual's
 9 age, race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immigration
 10 status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military
 11 status, sex, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, familial
 12 status, marital status, [or] status as a victim of domestic violence, or
 13 status as a person with a prior conviction to refuse to hire or employ
 14 or to bar or to discharge from employment such individual or to discrim-
 15 inate against such individual in compensation or in terms, conditions or
 16 privileges of employment.
 17 (b) For an employment agency to discriminate against any individual
 18 because of age, race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or
 19 immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,
 20 military status, sex, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics,
 21 familial status, marital status, [or] status as a victim of domestic
 22 violence or status as a person with a prior conviction, in receiving,
 23 classifying, disposing or otherwise acting upon applications for its
 24 services or in referring an applicant or applicants to an employer or
 25 employers.
 26 (c) For a labor organization, because of the age, race, creed, color,
 27 national origin, citizenship or immigration status, sexual orientation,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06124-01-5

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 1 gender identity or expression, military status, sex, disability, predis-
 2 posing genetic characteristics, familial status, marital status, [or]
 3 status as a victim of domestic violence[,] or status as a person with a
 4 prior conviction of any individual, to exclude or to expel from its
 5 membership such individual or to discriminate in any way against any of
 6 its members or against any employer or any individual employed by an
 7 employer.
 8 (d) For any employer or employment agency to print or circulate or
 9 cause to be printed or circulated any statement, advertisement or publi-
 10 cation, or to use any form of application for employment or to make any
 11 inquiry in connection with prospective employment, which expresses
 12 directly or indirectly, any limitation, specification or discrimination
 13 as to age, race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immi-
 14 gration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, mili-
 15 tary status, sex, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics,
 16 familial status, marital status, [or] status as a victim of domestic
 17 violence or status as a person with a prior conviction, or any intent to
 18 make any such limitation, specifica