Bill Text: NY A08053 | 2021-2022 | 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 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to codes [A08053 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A08053-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8053

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 11, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. ROZIC -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        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.
                                                                   LBD02708-03-1