Bill Text: NY A00628 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Extends the statute of limitations for claims resulting from unlawful discriminatory practices constituting sexual harassment to three years.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A00628 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00628-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           628
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ZEBROWSKI
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
        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 after the alleged unlawful discriminatory practice; provided
     6  that in cases of sexual harassment, the complaint must be so filed with-
     7  in three years after the alleged unlawful discriminatory practice.
     8    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     9  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01293-01-9