New York S 8207: Increases the penalties for certain unlawful discriminatory practices based on the lawful source of income of the victim

Bill Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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8207
IN SENATE
February 2, 2022
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Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- 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 increasing the penal-
ties for certain unlawful discriminatory practices based on the lawful
source of income of the victim
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 297 of the executive law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph f to read as follows:
3 f. Any monetary damages or fines awarded or assessed pursuant to para-
4 graph c of this subdivision shall be doubled where a respondent is found
5 to have engaged in an unlawful discriminatory practice defined in subdi-
6 visions two-a or five of section two hundred ninety-six of this article
7 which is based on the lawful source of income of the victim of such
8 unlawful discriminatory practice, and such respondent receives federal,
9 state or local tax benefits for the housing accommodation at issue in
10 the complaint.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14548-01-2