Bill Text: NY A08081 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Enacts the stop civil discrimination act requiring proof of service to include the server's perception of certain characteristics of the person to whom personal service of a summons was delivered.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-16 - reported [A08081 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A08081-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8081--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY September 27, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BORES, LEE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to requir- ing proof of service to include the server's perception of various characteristics of the recipient in the description of the person to whom personal service of a summons was delivered The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 the "stop civil discrimination act". 3 § 2. Subdivision (b) of rule 306 of the civil practice law and rules, 4 as amended by chapter 103 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as 5 follows: 6 (b) Personal service. Whenever service is made pursuant to this arti- 7 cle by delivery of the summons to an individual, proof of service shall 8 also include, in addition to any other requirement, a description of the 9 person to whom it was so delivered, including, but not limited to, [sex,10color of skin] the person's perceived: gender, race, hair color, approx- 11 imate age, approximate weight and height, and other identifying 12 features. 13 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13038-02-3
