New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S03469 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 01/27/2025

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3469 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 27, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. HELMING, BORRELLO, MATTERA, OBERACKER, ORTT, STEC, WEIK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be commit- ted 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 656 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 5. Any complaint filed pursuant to this section must be so filed with- 5 in three years after the alleged unlawful discriminatory practice or, 6 when the case involves employment at a state agency or instrumentality 7 thereof, the office of the governor or the state legislature, within 8 three years after the alleged unlawful discriminatory practices or with- 9 in one year of complainant's employment termination at such employer, 10 whichever is later. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 12 have become a law, and shall apply to any complaint filed on, before or 13 after such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07350-01-5