Senate Bill S1740

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Expands definition of place of public accommodation

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-S1740 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4497
Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง292, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S1791, A5359
2013-2014: S641, A2507
2015-2016: S3195, A2843
2017-2018: S5595, A3163
2019-2020: S3887, A3971
2021-2022: S4217, A2086

2009-S1740 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits discrimination because of race, creed, sex, color or national origin in institutions, clubs or places of public accommodation that are granted licenses or tax exemption from the state or any of its political subdivisions; clarifies the definition of "distinctly private" so that an institution which receives tax exemption or licensing from government, which are public privileges rather than private rights, may no longer discriminate on the basis of race, creed, sex, color or national origin.

2009-S1740 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S1740 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1740

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 5, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sens.  STAVISKY,  ADAMS, DIAZ, HUNTLEY, KRUEGER, PARKER,
  SAMPSON -- 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 unlawful discriminato-
  ry practices

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1.  Subdivision 9 of section 292  of  the  executive  law,  as
amended  by  chapter  262  of  the  laws  of 1994, is amended to read as
follows:
  9. The term "place of public accommodation, resort or amusement" shall
include, except as hereinafter specified, all  places  included  in  the
meaning  of  such  terms as: inns, taverns, road houses, hotels, motels,
whether conducted for the entertainment of transient guests or  for  the
accommodation  of  those  seeking health, recreation or rest, or restau-
rants, or eating houses, or any place where food is sold for consumption
on the premises; buffets, saloons,  barrooms,  or  any  store,  park  or
enclosure  where spirituous or malt liquors are sold; ice cream parlors,
confectionaries, soda fountains, and all stores where ice cream, ice and
fruit preparations or their derivatives, or where beverages of any  kind
are  retailed  for  consumption  on  the  premises; wholesale and retail
stores and establishments dealing with goods or services  of  any  kind,
dispensaries, clinics, hospitals, bath-houses, swimming pools, laundries
and  all  other  cleaning  establishments, barber shops, beauty parlors,
theatres, motion picture houses, airdromes, roof gardens,  music  halls,
race  courses,  skating  rinks,  amusement and recreation parks, trailer
camps, resort camps, fairs, bowling alleys,  golf  courses,  gymnasiums,
shooting  galleries,  billiard  and  pool  parlors;  garages, all public
conveyances operated on land or water or in the  air,  as  well  as  the
stations  and terminals thereof; travel or tour advisory services, agen-
cies or bureaus; public halls and  public  elevators  of  buildings  and

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04420-01-9
              

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