Bill Text: NY S02378 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
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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-Introduced.html
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-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2378 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 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