Bill Text: NY A11296 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Extends the time to file a complaint for an unlawful discriminatory practice from one year to three years; provides that the notice of intention to file pursuant to the court of claims act for any claim to recover damages for an unlawful discriminatory practice shall be filed within six months.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-10-19 - print number 11296b [A11296 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A11296-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        11296--A
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      July 25, 2018
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        Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Simotas) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the executive law  and  the  court  of  claims  act,  in
          relation to filing a complaint for an unlawful discriminatory practice
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section  297  of  the  executive  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  958  of  the  laws  of 1968, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    5. Any complaint filed pursuant to this section must be so filed with-
     5  in [one year] three years  after  the  alleged  unlawful  discriminatory
     6  practice.
     7    §  2. Section 10 of the court of claims act is amended by adding a new
     8  subdivision 10 to read as follows:
     9    10. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, a  claim  to
    10  recover  damages  for  an  unlawful  discriminatory practice pursuant to
    11  article fifteen of the executive law shall be filed and served upon  the
    12  attorney  general  within  six  months  after the accrual of such claim,
    13  unless the claimant shall within  such  time  serve  upon  the  attorney
    14  general a written notice of intention to file a claim therefor, in which
    15  event  the  claim  shall  be  filed and served upon the attorney general
    16  within three years after such accrual.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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