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legislation/us/states/ny/2019-2020/s-5791.md

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Provides for penalties for discrimination or retaliation against immigrant employees"
+description: "Establishes penalties for threatening, penalizing, or in any other manner discriminating or retaliating against any employee, including but not limited to contacting United States immigration authorities or otherwise threatening to report an employee's suspected citizenship or immigration status."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2019-2020"
+identifier: "S 5791"
+citation: "New York S 5791 (2019-2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["RAMOS"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2019-05-15"
+last_action: "2019-07-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/262e2394-429c-4b78-be9d-d50ee54b2633"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/S5791"
+source_hash: "9b44f4aff519213d5b932128b8835aa835182b3a4d2a8faf139e6c543f6687c6"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
+---
+
+# New York S 5791 (2019-2020) — Provides for penalties for discrimination or retaliation against immigrant employees
+
+Establishes penalties for threatening, penalizing, or in any other manner discriminating or retaliating against any employee, including but not limited to contacting United States immigration authorities or otherwise threatening to report an employee's suspected citizenship or immigration status.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S5791** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S5791&term=2019&Text=Y)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Labor Vote — **12–1** (pass) · upper
+- Assembly Vote — **104–42** (pass) · lower
+- Floor Vote — **59–3** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- RAMOS — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-05-15** REFERRED TO LABOR `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-30** 1ST REPORT CAL.1117
+- **2019-06-03** 2ND REPORT CAL.
+- **2019-06-04** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
+- **2019-06-12** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2019-06-12** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2019-06-12** REFERRED TO CODES `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-17** SUBSTITUTED FOR A5501
+- **2019-06-17** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.196
+- **2019-06-17** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
+- **2019-06-17** RETURNED TO SENATE
+- **2019-07-16** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-07-27** SIGNED CHAP.126 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/262e2394-429c-4b78-be9d-d50ee54b2633`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
+