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July 25, 2018
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. L. Rosen-
thal) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to the
statute of limitations for actions based on harassment in the work-
place
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The section heading and subdivisions 7 and 8 of section 213
of the civil practice law and rules, the section heading as amended and
subdivision 7 as renumbered by chapter 43 of the laws of 1975, subdivi-
sion 7 as amended by chapter 532 of the laws of 1963, and subdivision 8
as amended by chapter 403 of the laws of 2004, are amended and a new
subdivision 9 is added to read as follows:
Actions to be commenced within six years: where not otherwise provided
for; on contract; on sealed instrument; on bond or note, and mortgage
upon real property; by state based on misappropriation of public proper-
ty; based on mistake; by corporation against director, officer or stock-
holder; based on fraud; BASED ON HARASSMENT IN THE WORKPLACE.
7. an action by or on behalf of a corporation against a present or
former director, officer or stockholder for an accounting, or to procure
a judgment on the ground of fraud, or to enforce a liability, penalty or
forfeiture, or to recover damages for waste or for an injury to property
or for an accounting in conjunction therewith[.];
8. an action based upon fraud; the time within which the action must
be commenced shall be the greater of six years from the date the cause
of action accrued or two years from the time the plaintiff or the person
under whom the plaintiff claims discovered the fraud, or could with
reasonable diligence have discovered it[.];
9. AN ACTION BASED UPON HARASSMENT IN THE WORKPLACE PURSUANT TO THE
CIVIL RIGHTS LAW OR THE HUMAN RIGHTS LAW.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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