Bill Text: NY A08394 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Extends the statute of limitations relating to a civil action by an employee who has been the subject of a retaliatory personnel action from one year to two years.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to labor [A08394 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08394-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8394

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 15, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. ROZIC -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Labor

        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to extending the  statute  of
          limitations relating to a civil action by an employee who has been the
          subject of a retaliatory personnel action

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 4 of section 740 of the  labor
     2  law,  as added by chapter 660 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    (a) An employee who has been the subject of  a  retaliatory  personnel
     5  action  in  violation  of this section may institute a civil action in a
     6  court of competent jurisdiction for relief as set forth  in  subdivision
     7  five  of  this  section  within  [one  year] two years after the alleged
     8  retaliatory personnel action was taken.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11975-01-9