Bill Text: NY S04568 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 4568 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to actions commenced by immediate family members within the zone of danger for intentional or negligent infliction of emotional distress.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S04568 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S04568-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        4568--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 11, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen. MARTINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed 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 actions
         commenced  by  immediate  family members within the zone of danger for
         intentional or negligent infliction of emotional distress
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Section 215 of the civil practice law and rules is amended
    2  by adding a new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
    3    9. AN ACTION BY AN IMMEDIATE FAMILY MEMBER WITHIN THE ZONE  OF  DANGER
    4  FOR  INTENTIONAL OR NEGLIGENT INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS.  FOR THE
    5  PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "IMMEDIATE FAMILY MEMBER" SHALL MEAN A SPOUSE,
    6  PARENT, CHILD, SIBLING, OR GRANDPARENT.
    7    S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    8  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD10279-02-3