Assembly Bill A9579

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to prohibiting employers from seeking graduation dates from prospective employees

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2019-A9579 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6900
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §296, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A1051, S2003
2023-2024: A311, S331

2019-A9579 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits any employer, labor organization, employment agency or licensing agency, or employees or agents thereof, to seek high school, college or graduate program graduation dates from a prospective employee for an interview or as a condition for employment.

2019-A9579 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9579
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 24, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to prohibiting  employers
   from seeking graduation dates from prospective employees
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 296 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 20 to read as follows:
   20. IT SHALL BE AN UNLAWFUL DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICE OF  ANY  EMPLOYER,
 LABOR  ORGANIZATION, EMPLOYMENT AGENCY OR LICENSING AGENCY, OR EMPLOYEES
 OR AGENTS THEREOF, TO SEEK HIGH  SCHOOL,  COLLEGE  OR  GRADUATE  PROGRAM
 GRADUATION  DATES  FROM  A PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYEE FOR AN INTERVIEW OR AS A
 CONDITION FOR EMPLOYMENT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14084-01-9

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