Bill Text: NY S05769 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Extends the statute of limitations for complaints alleging cases of sexual harassment in employment, to 3 years or within 1 year of the complainant's employment termination at such employer, whichever is later.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 12-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S05769 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S05769-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5769

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 18, 2021
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        Introduced  by Sens. HELMING, BOYLE, JORDAN, ORTT, RITCHIE, SERINO, WEIK
          -- 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 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.
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