Bill Text: NY S02378 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

---

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) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S02378 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S02378-Amended.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         2378--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 24, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment  Operations  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,   ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to extending the statute
          of limitations for claims resulting from unlawful discriminatory prac-
          tices constituting sexual harassment 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 958 of the laws  of  1968,  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.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth 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.
                                                                   LBD01293-02-9