New York Senate Bill S05065 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5065 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 22, 2023 ___________ 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 italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09673-01-3