STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8609 IN ASSEMBLY January 10, 2022 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WALSH -- 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 certain sexual harassment complaints 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 section 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 after the alleged unlawful discriminatory practice. In cases 6 of sexual harassment in employment, any complaint filed pursuant to this 7 section must be so filed within three years after the alleged unlawful 8 discriminatory practices or, when the case involves employment at a 9 state agency or instrumentality thereof, the office of the governor or 10 the state legislature, within three years after the alleged unlawful 11 discriminatory practices or within one year of complainant's employment 12 termination at such employer, whichever is later. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 14 have become a law, and shall apply to any complaint filed on, before or 15 after such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10518-02-1