Bill Text: NY S03255 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-11-17 - SIGNED CHAP.656 [S03255 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03255-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3255

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 30, 2023
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        Introduced by Sens. HOYLMAN-SIGAL, BROUK, JACKSON, KRUEGER -- read twice
          and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
          on Investigations and Government Operations

        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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