Bill Text: NY A00969 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 969

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to the amount of damages recoverable in a cause of action for unlawful interference with protected rights which is up to three times the amount of compensatory damages.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-03-03 - signed chap.26 [A00969 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00969-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           969

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BURDICK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Judiciary

        AN ACT to amend the civil rights law,  in  relation  to  the  amount  of
          damages  recoverable  in  a  cause of action for unlawful interference
          with protected rights

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section 70-b of the civil
     2  rights law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the civil
     3  rights  law  relating  to  establishing  a  cause of action for unlawful
     4  interference with protected rights, as  proposed  in  legislative  bills
     5  numbers A. 10094-A and S. 9039-A, is amended to read as follows:
     6    (b)  [punitive]  additional damages of up to three times the amount of
     7  compensatory damages shall be  recoverable  upon  an  additional  demon-
     8  stration  that the action against the plaintiff was commenced or contin-
     9  ued for the purpose of harassing,  intimidating,  punishing or otherwise
    10  maliciously inhibiting the exercise of rights  protected  in  New  York,
    11  including  but  not  limited  to  the  rights in subdivision six of this
    12  section.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    14  manner  as  a  chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the civil rights law
    15  relating to establishing a cause of  action  for  unlawful  interference
    16  with  protected  rights,  as  proposed  in  legislative bills numbers A.
    17  10094-A and S. 9039-A, takes effect.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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