Senate Bill S4438

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Enacts the Effective Enforcement of Civil Rights Act of 2023

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations 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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2023-S4438 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6114
Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§292 & 295, Exec L; amd Art 12-D §§239-o - 239-t, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S8669

2023-S4438 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "Effective Enforcement of Civil Rights Act"; provides for the enactment and enforcement of local human rights laws.

2023-S4438 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S4438 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4438
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 8, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- 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 and the general municipal law, in
   relation to providing for local human rights laws

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 the "Effective Enforcement of Civil Rights Act of 2023".
   § 2. Legislative purpose. To encourage municipalities to  take  advan-
 tage  of  their home rule powers to proscribe discrimination and to more
 broadly prohibit discriminatory conduct and decisions that  take  place,
 in  whole  or  in part, within a local jurisdiction, regardless of where
 that conduct and decisions have impact.
   § 3. Section 292 of the executive law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 subdivision 42 to read as follows:
   42.  THE  TERM  "LOCAL  HUMAN  RIGHTS LAW", WHEN USED IN THIS ARTICLE,
 MEANS A LAW OF A CITY OR OF A COUNTY NOT WHOLLY LOCATED  WITHIN  A  CITY
 THAT  HAS  DELINEATED AND PROSCRIBED LOCAL UNLAWFUL DISCRIMINATORY PRAC-
 TICES.
   § 4. Subdivisions 6 and 16 of section 295 of the executive law, subdi-
 vision 6 as amended by chapter 958 of the laws of 1968  and  subdivision
 16  as  added by chapter 493 of the laws of 1970, are amended to read as
 follows:
   6. (a) To receive,  investigate  and  pass  upon  complaints  alleging
 violations of this article AND LOCAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAWS.
   (b) Upon its own motion, to test and investigate and to make, sign and
 file  complaints  alleging  violations  of  this article AND LOCAL HUMAN
 RIGHTS LAWS, and to initiate investigations and studies to carry out the
 purposes of this article.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08835-02-3
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