Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Mar 09, 2010 |
referred to investigations and government operations delivered to senate passed assembly |
Jan 06, 2010 |
ordered to third reading cal.564 returned to assembly died in senate |
Jun 02, 2009 |
referred to investigations and government operations delivered to senate passed assembly |
May 28, 2009 |
advanced to third reading cal.699 |
May 27, 2009 |
reported |
May 19, 2009 |
reported referred to codes |
May 07, 2009 |
referred to judiciary |
Assembly Bill A8184
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
DINOWITZ
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2009-A8184 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Senate Version of this Bill:
- S3884
- Current Committee:
- Senate Investigations And Government Operations
- Law Section:
- Executive Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยง297, Exec L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2011-2012:
A1860
2013-2014: A353
2015-2016: A1998
2017-2018: A3923
2019-2020: A2475
2021-2022: A1899
2009-A8184 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 8184 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y May 7, 2009 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ, WEINSTEIN -- (at request of the Divi- sion of Human Rights) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to providing for the award of attorney's fees and expert witness fees in appropriate cases THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 10 of section 297 of the executive law, as added by section 17 of part D of chapter 405 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows: 10. [With respect to cases of housing discrimination only, in] IN an action or proceeding at law under this section or section two hundred ninety-eight of this article, the commissioner or the court may in its discretion award reasonable attorney's fees to any prevailing or substantially prevailing party; provided, however, that a prevailing respondent or defendant in order to recover such reasonable attorney's fees must make a motion requesting such fees and show that the action or proceeding brought was frivolous; and further provided that in a proceeding brought in the division of human rights, the commissioner may only award attorney's fees as part of a final order after a public hear- ing held pursuant to subdivision four of this section. In no case shall attorney's fees be awarded to the division, nor shall the division be liable to a prevailing or substantially prevailing party for attorney's fees, except in a case in which the division is a party to the action or the proceeding in the division's capacity as an employer. WITH RESPECT TO CASES OF EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION ONLY, THE AWARD OF ATTORNEY'S FEES WILL BE LIMITED TO THOSE CASES IN WHICH THE EMPLOYER HAS FIFTY OR MORE EMPLOYEES. EXPERT WITNESS FEES MAY BE AWARDED IN THE SAME MANNER AS ATTORNEY'S FEES. In order to find the action or proceeding to be frivo- lous, the court or the commissioner must find in writing one or more of the following: EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09042-01-9
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