Bill Text: NY S00566 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Extends the statute of limitations for claims resulting from unlawful discriminatory practices to three years.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-03-01 - referred to codes [S00566 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00566-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         566--A
            Cal. No. 208

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by Sens. HOYLMAN, BROUK, GAUGHRAN, JACKSON -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Investigations  and  Government  Operations -- reported favorably from
          said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third
          reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining  its  place  in  the
          order of third reading

        AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to extending the statute
          of limitations for claims resulting from unlawful discriminatory prac-
          tices to three years

          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 160 of the laws  of  2019,  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. [In cases of sexual harassment in  employment,  any  complaint
     7  filed pursuant to this section must be so filed within three years after
     8  the alleged unlawful discriminatory practices.]
     9    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    10  have become a law and shall apply to all unlawful  discriminatory  prac-
    11  tice claims arising on or after such effective date.



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