Assembly Bill A6898

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires additional notice prior to commencing an action in certain discrimination cases

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2025-A6898 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3237
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §297, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A8054, S7374
2023-2024: A1684, S920

2025-A6898 (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.

2025-A6898 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6898
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 18, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER, HUNTER, K. BROWN, JONES, TAGUE, ANGELI-
   NO, HAWLEY, NOVAKHOV, LUPARDO, LEVENBERG -- 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]
 THE 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  administra-
 tive  remedy is annulled. Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of section two
 hundred four of the civil practice law and rules, if a complaint  is  so
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00902-01-5
              

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