Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Oct 21, 2015 |
signed chap.364 |
Oct 20, 2015 |
delivered to governor |
Jun 02, 2015 |
returned to senate passed assembly |
May 13, 2015 |
ordered to third reading cal.335 substituted for a7189 |
Jan 12, 2015 |
referred to governmental operations delivered to assembly passed senate ordered to third reading cal.3 |
Jan 07, 2015 |
referred to rules |
Senate Bill S3
Signed By Governor2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - Signed by Governor
- 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
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co-Sponsors
(D) Senate District
(D) Senate District
(R, C) 60th Senate District
(D) Senate District
2015-S3 (ACTIVE) - Details
2015-S3 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S3 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the executive law, in relation to the provision of attorney's fees in cases of housing, employment or credit discrimination; to amend the executive law, in relation to the awarding of reasonable attorney's fees SUMMARY OF BILLS: Attorney's Fees This bill would amend Exec. L § 297 to provide for attorney's fees in employment or credit discrimination cases when sex is a basis of discrimination and retain the existing allowance for attorney's fees in housing and housing related credit cases. It would similarly amend Exec. L. § 296-a to permit the awarding of attorney's fees in credit discrimination cases when sex is a basis of discrimination in matters brought before the Department of Financial Services EXISTING LAW: These bills would impact existing protections that are available under the Executive Law. STATEMENT IN SUPPORT:
2015-S3 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 9, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LITTLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the provision of attorney's fees in cases of housing, employment or credit discrimi- nation; to amend the executive law, in relation to the awarding of reasonable attorney's fees 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 ALL cases of HOUSING DISCRIMINATION AND housing RELATED CREDIT discrimination [only] 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; AND WITH RESPECT TO A CLAIM OF EMPLOYMENT OR CREDIT DISCRIMINATION WHERE SEX IS A BASIS OF SUCH DISCRIMINATION, 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 ATTRIBUTABLE TO SUCH CLAIM TO ANY 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 hearing 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 substan- tially 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 divi- EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07115-01-5
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