Andrew Cuomo

Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivers his State of the State address and executive budget proposal at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in January. Cuomo signed an executive order Tuesday requires all state agencies to review all requests for state funded or state sponsored travel to Mississippi. The order bars all travel that is not essential to the enforcement of state law or public health and safety.

(AP Photo/Mike Groll)

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo banned all non-essential state travel to Mississippi following Mississippi's enactment of a law that many view as discriminatory to gays, lesbians and transgender people.

The executive order Cuomo signed Tuesday requires all state agencies to review all requests for state funded or state sponsored travel to Mississippi. The order bars all travel that is not essential to the enforcement of state law or public health and safety.

In a statement, Cuomo said Mississippi's law allows businesses and non-profits to refuse service to people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.

"Discrimination is not a New York value. We believe our diversity is our greatest strength, and we will continue to reject the politics of division and exclusion," Cuomo said. "This Mississippi law is a sad, hateful injustice against the LGBT community, and I will not allow any non-essential official travel to that state until it is repealed."

In 1945, New York passed the first state law against discrimination on many bases including age, race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, military status, sex, gender identity, marital status, and disability.

Cuomo previously banned non-essential state travel to North Carolina after it passed a law barring transgender people from using public bathrooms appropriate for their gender identities. Last year Cuomo banned travel to Indiana because of a religious-objections law that had spurred concern about anti-gay discrimination. Indiana later amended its law.