Assembly Bill A8986

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Extends the statute of limitations for coroners, coroners' physicians and medical examiners for article 78 proceedings

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A8986 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Civil Practice Law and Rules
Laws Affected:
Amd §217, CPLR

2025-A8986 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Extends the statute of limitations for coroners, coroners' physicians and medical examiners for article 78 proceedings to ten years.

2025-A8986 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8986
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              August 13, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. CONRAD -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to extend-
   ing  the  statute of limitations for coroners, coroners' physicians or
   medical examiners for article 78 proceedings

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 1 of section 217 of the civil practice law and
 rules, as amended by chapter 467 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read
 as follows:
   1. Unless a shorter time  is  provided  in  the  law  authorizing  the
 proceeding,  a  proceeding  against  a body or officer must be commenced
 within four months after the determination to be reviewed becomes  final
 and  binding upon the petitioner or the person whom [he] SUCH PETITIONER
 represents in law or in fact, or after the  respondent's  refusal,  upon
 the  demand  of  the  petitioner or the person whom [he] SUCH PETITIONER
 represents, to perform its duty; or with leave of the  court  where  the
 petitioner  or  the  person whom [he] SUCH PETITIONER represents, at the
 time such determination became final and binding upon [him]  SUCH  PETI-
 TIONER  or at the time of such refusal, was under a disability specified
 in section 208 OF THIS ARTICLE, within two years after such time, OR  IN
 THE  CASE  OF  A  CORONER,  CORONER'S  PHYSICIAN  OR  MEDICAL EXAMINER A
 PROCEEDING MUST BE  COMMENCED  WITHIN  TEN  YEARS  AFTER  SUCH  CORONER,
 CORONER'S PHYSICIAN OR MEDICAL EXAMINER'S REPORT IS FINALIZED.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11791-01-5

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