New York S 5503: Prohibits discrimination on the basis of a person's height or weight in opportunities of employment, housing, and access to public accommodations

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S05503 Summary:

BILL NOS05503 

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SAME ASSAME AS A01858

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SPONSORHOYLMAN-SIGAL

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COSPNSRKRUEGER, WEBB

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§292, 296, 296-a & 296-c, Exec L

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Prohibits discrimination on the basis of a person's height or weight in opportunities of employment, housing, and access to public accommodations.

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BILL NOS05503 

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02/24/2025REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 5503

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 24, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. HOYLMAN-SIGAL, KRUEGER, WEBB -- 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 discrimi-
 nation on the basis of a person's height or weight in opportunities of
 employment, housing, and access to public accommodations

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

 1 Section 1. Paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d) and (h) of subdivision 1 of
 2 section 296 of the executive law, as separately amended by chapters 202
 3 and 748 of the laws of 2022, are amended to read as follows:
 4 (a) For an employer or licensing agency, because of an individual's
 5 age, race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immigration
 6 status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military
 7 status, sex, height, weight, disability, predisposing genetic character-
 8 istics, familial status, marital status, or status as a victim of domes-
 9 tic violence, to refuse to hire or employ or to bar or to discharge from
 10 employment such individual or to discriminate against such individual in
 11 compensation or in terms, conditions or privileges of employment.
 12 (b) For an employment agency to discriminate against any individual
 13 because of age, race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or
 14 immigration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,
 15 military status, sex, height, weight, disability, predisposing genetic
 16 characteristics, familial status, marital status, or status as a victim
 17 of domestic violence, in receiving, classifying, disposing or otherwise
 18 acting upon applications for its services or in referring an applicant
 19 or applicants to an employer or employers.
 20 (c) For a labor organization, because of the age, race, creed, color,
 21 national origin, citizenship or immigration status, sexual orientation,
 22 gender identity or expression, military status, sex, height, weight,
 23 disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, familial status, mari-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04818-01-5

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 1 tal status, or status as a victim of domestic violence, of any individ-
 2 ual, to exclude or to expel from its membership such individual or to
 3 discriminate in any way against any of its members or against any
 4 employer or any individual employed by an employer.
 5 (d) For any employer or employment agency to print or circulate or
 6 cause to be printed or circulated any statement, advertisement or publi-
 7 cation, or to use any form of application for employment or to make any
 8 inquiry in connection with prospective employment, which expresses
 9 directly or indirectly, any limitation, specification or discrimination
 10 as to age, race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship or immi-
 11 gration status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, mili-
 12 tary status, sex, height, weight, disability, predisposing genetic char-
 13 acteristics, familial status, marital status, or status as a victim of
 14 domestic violence, or any intent to make any such limitation, specifica-
 15 tion or discrimination, unless based upon a bona fide occupational qual-
 16 ification; provided, however, that neither this paragraph nor any
 17 provision of this chapter or other law shall b