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Jan 17, 2023 | referred to codes |
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Fred Thiele
Inez E. Dickens
Chris Tague
Joe Angelino
A1684 (ACTIVE) - Details
A1684 (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.
A1684 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1684 2023-2024 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 17, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER, THIELE, DICKENS, TAGUE, ANGELINO, HAWLEY, SILLITTI, HUNTER, K. BROWN, JONES -- read once and referred to the Committee 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 amended by chapter 140 of the laws of 2022, 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 article, provided that, where the division has dismissed such complaint on the grounds of administrative convenience, on the grounds of untimeliness, 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 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02612-01-3