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Jun 11, 2021 | referred to codes |
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John T. McDonald III
Fred Thiele
Inez E. Dickens
Daniel O'Donnell
A8054 (ACTIVE) - Details
A8054 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Requires that a claimant alleging that the contents of a website or mobile application that describes goods and services provided at a place of public accommodation constitutes an unlawful discriminatory practice against visually and hearing impaired individuals serve written notice on the owner and provide 60 days to cure the alleged violation prior to commencing an action.
A8054 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 8054 2021-2022 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y June 11, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Codes AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring additional notice prior to commencing an action in certain discrimination cases THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 297 of the executive law, as sepa- rately amended by chapter 160 of the laws of 2019 and chapter 236 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows: 9. A. Any person claiming to be aggrieved by an unlawful discriminato- ry practice shall have a cause of action in any court of appropriate jurisdiction for damages, including, in cases of employment discrimi- nation related to private employers and housing discrimination only, punitive damages, and such other remedies as may be appropriate, includ- ing any civil fines and penalties provided in subdivision four of this section, unless such person had filed a complaint hereunder or with any local commission on human rights, or with the superintendent pursuant to the provisions of section two hundred ninety-six-a of this [chapter] ARTICLE, provided that, where the division has dismissed such complaint on the grounds of administrative convenience, on the grounds of untime- liness, or on the grounds that the election of remedies is annulled, such person shall maintain all rights to bring suit as if no complaint had been filed with the division. At any time prior to a hearing before a hearing examiner, a person who has a complaint pending at the division may request that the division dismiss the complaint and annul his or her election of remedies so that the human rights law claim may be pursued in court, and the division may, upon such request, dismiss the complaint on the grounds that such person's election of an administrative remedy is annulled. Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of section two hundred four of the civil practice law and rules, if a complaint is so annulled by the division, upon the request of the party bringing such complaint EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.