STATE OF NEW YORK
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6204
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 22, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed 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.
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