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A11596 • 2025

Adds libraries to the list of sensitive locations for immigration enforcement purposes

Adds libraries to the list of sensitive locations for immigration enforcement purposes

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Sponsor
Gabriella Romero
Last action
2026-06-05
Official status
In Assembly Committee
Effective date
Not listed

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Adds libraries to the list of sensitive locations for immigration enforcement purposes

Adds libraries to the list of sensitive locations for immigration enforcement purposes Adds libraries to the list of sensitive locations for immigration enforcement purposes.

What This Bill Does

  • Adds libraries to the list of sensitive locations for immigration enforcement purposes Adds libraries to the list of sensitive locations for immigration enforcement purposes.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-06-05 Assembly

    REFERRED TO CODES

Official Summary Text

Adds libraries to the list of sensitive locations for immigration enforcement purposes
Adds libraries to the list of sensitive locations for immigration enforcement purposes.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          11596

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                      June 5, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Romero) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to adding libraries to
          the list of sensitive locations for immigration enforcement purposes

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

     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph  (xii)  of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of
     2  section 29 of the civil rights law is  renumbered  subparagraph  (xiii),
     3  subparagraph  (xi) of such paragraph, as added by section 2 of subpart E
     4  of part LL of chapter 55 of the laws of  2026,  is  amended  and  a  new
     5  subparagraph (xii) is added to read as follows:
     6    (xi) park, playground, athletic field, or recreation center; [or]
     7    (XII) LIBRARY; OR
     8    §  2. Severability.   If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision,
     9  section, or part of this act shall be adjudged by any court of competent
    10  jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect,  impair,  or
    11  invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation
    12  to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section, or part there-
    13  of  directly  involved  in  the controversy in which such judgment shall
    14  have been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of the legis-
    15  lature that this act would  have  been  enacted  even  if  such  invalid
    16  provisions had not been included herein.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16060-01-6