Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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May 10, 2018 |
referred to codes |
Senate Bill S8663
2017-2018 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes 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
co-Sponsors
(D) Senate District
(R, C, IP) Senate District
(R, C, IP) Senate District
(R, C, IP) Senate District
2017-S8663 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Codes
- Law Section:
- Civil Rights Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §51, Civ Rts L
2017-S8663 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S8663 SPONSOR: BOYLE TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the civil rights law, in relation to establishing a cause of action for injunction and damages for unlawful dissemination of an intimate image PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: This legislation would allow individuals to seek damages if an individ- ual has released intimate images of another without permission. This legislation would also allow individuals to obtain a temporary injunc- tion to prevent the release or stop the distribution of such intimate images. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Section 1. Adds a new section to section 51 of the human rights law which would allow a person who is subject to unlawful dissemination of
2017-S8663 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 8663 I N S E N A T E May 10, 2018 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BOYLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to establishing a cause of action for injunction and damages for unlawful dissemination of an intimate image THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 51 of the civil rights law, as amended by chapter 674 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as follows: § 51. Action for injunction and for damages. 1. Any person whose name, portrait, picture or voice is used within this state for advertising purposes or for the purposes of trade without the written consent first obtained as above provided may maintain an equitable action in the supreme court of this state against the person, firm or corporation so using his name, portrait, picture or voice, to prevent and restrain the use thereof; and may also sue and recover damages for any injuries sustained by reason of such use and if the defendant shall have knowing- ly used such person's name, portrait, picture or voice in such manner as is forbidden or declared to be unlawful by section fifty of this arti- cle, the jury, in its discretion, may award exemplary damages. But noth- ing contained in this article shall be so construed as to prevent any person, firm or corporation from selling or otherwise transferring any material containing such name, portrait, picture or voice in whatever medium to any user of such name, portrait, picture or voice, or to any third party for sale or transfer directly or indirectly to such a user, for use in a manner lawful under this article; nothing contained in this article shall be so construed as to prevent any person, firm or corpo- ration, practicing the profession of photography, from exhibiting in or about his or its establishment specimens of the work of such establish- ment, unless the same is continued by such person, firm or corporation after written notice objecting thereto has been given by the person portrayed; and nothing contained in this article shall be so construed as to prevent any person, firm or corporation from using the name, portrait, picture or voice of any manufacturer or dealer in connection EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
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