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legislation/us/states/ny/2025-2026/s-8338.md

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Clarifies the standard for when a practice has a discriminatory effect"
+description: "Clarifies the standard for when a practice has a discriminatory effect; provides that an unlawful discriminatory practice may be established by such practice's discriminatory effect, even if such practice was not motivated by a discriminatory intent."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "S 8338"
+citation: "New York S 8338 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Shelley Mayer"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 11
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-06-03"
+last_action: "2025-12-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/944d0507-8a66-4ce1-85c1-83e40b9fe9b6"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S8338"
+source_hash: "4d9522016a0614a806ee03b3ba479d890a2ff99169e57bfb654eb5673a5c0391"
+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 8338 (2025-2026) — Clarifies the standard for when a practice has a discriminatory effect
+
+Clarifies the standard for when a practice has a discriminatory effect; provides that an unlawful discriminatory practice may be established by such practice's discriminatory effect, even if such practice was not motivated by a discriminatory intent.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S8338** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S8338&term=2025&Text=Y)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Rules Vote — **21–0** (pass) · upper
+- Assembly Vote — **98–46** (pass) · lower
+- Floor Vote — **59–3** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Shelley Mayer — primary (person)
+- Robert Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-03** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-09** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1725
+- **2025-06-09** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2025-06-09** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2025-06-09** REFERRED TO CODES `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-10** SUBSTITUTED FOR A8699A
+- **2025-06-10** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.593
+- **2025-06-16** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
+- **2025-06-16** RETURNED TO SENATE
+- **2025-12-08** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-12-19** SIGNED CHAP.706 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/944d0507-8a66-4ce1-85c1-83e40b9fe9b6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
+