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New York · 2025-2026 General Assembly
A00675Enacts the empire state licensing act to provide all New Yorkers with access to professional, occupational, commercial, or business licenses, permits, certificates, or related registrations regardless of an applicant's citizenship or immigration status.
Removes citizenship and immigration status as barriers to obtaining or renewing state and local professional, occupational, business and other licenses, and prohibits issuing entities from inquiring into or requiring proof of an applicant's immigration or citizenship status, so less immigration-en
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, no otherwise qualified applicant for a license or renewal thereof, shall be denied to any individual or entity based on the immigration or citizenship status of such applicant.
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Status: Died (session ended)
Last action
2026-06-03: ordered to third reading rules cal.442
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill enacts the Empire State Licensing Act, which bars denial of any state or local professional/occupational/business license based on immigration or citizenship status, voids all existing citizenship/permanent-residence requirements for such licenses, prohibits inquiries into immigration status, and repeals dozens of specific statutory citizenship requirements across education law, alcoholic beverage control law, public health law, judiciary law and other titles. These changes reduce state and local government use of immigration status as a barrier to licensed occupations and activities,
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Hearings and calendar
2026-06-02 00:00 · Hearing · Assembly Ways and Means Committee Hearing
2026-06-03 00:00 · Hearing · Assembly Ways and Means Committee Hearing