The scope and authority of the New York State Commission Against Discrimination would be widened and strengthened under proposals submitted yesterday by Governor Nelson Rockefeller to the State Legislature.
The Governor proposed that the agency’s name be changed to the State Commission on Human Rights to reflect the theory that “a citizen of this state does not merely have the right to ask for state assistance because he has been discriminated against but rather that he is endowed with affirmative rights inherent to all Americans.”
Other phases of the Governor’s requests would list a number of types of public places in which discrimination on grounds of race, creed, color or national origin, was banned. These include motels, public swimming pools, laundries, trailer camps, resort camps, public air transportation, retail stores and travel agencies. Such listing in the law, he said, would make it clear that they fall within the commission’s Jurisdiction.
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