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Senate Bill S1142

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the statute of limitations for actions based on employment discrimination

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2025-S1142 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A188
Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Civil Practice Law and Rules
Laws Affected:
Amd §213, CPLR
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A11293
2019-2020: S6322, A304
2021-2022: S849, A233
2023-2024: S345, A65

2025-S1142 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the statute of limitations for actions based on discriminatory practices in employment; establishes action must be commenced within six years.

2025-S1142 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1142 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1142
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  GOUNARDES, BROUK, COMRIE, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, JACKSON,
   KRUEGER, LIU, MAYER, RIVERA, SEPULVEDA,  SKOUFIS  --  read  twice  and
   ordered  printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
   Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules,  in  relation  to  the
   statute  of limitations for actions based upon unlawful discriminatory
   practice in employment
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. The section heading and subdivisions 7, 8 and 9 of section
 213 of the civil practice law and rules, the section heading as  amended
 and  subdivision  7  as  renumbered  by  chapter 43 of the laws of 1975,
 subdivision 7 as amended by chapter 532 of the laws of 1963, and  subdi-
 vision  8 as amended by chapter 403 of the laws of 2004, and subdivision
 9 as added by chapter 184 of the laws of 2019  are  amended  and  a  new
 subdivision 10 is added to read as follows:
   Actions to be commenced within six years: where not otherwise provided
 for;  on  contract;  on sealed instrument; on bond or note, and mortgage
 upon real property; by state based on misappropriation of public proper-
 ty; based on mistake; by corporation against director, officer or stock-
 holder; based on fraud; BASED UPON UNLAWFUL DISCRIMINATORY  PRACTICE  IN
 EMPLOYMENT.
   7.  an  action  by  or on behalf of a corporation against a present or
 former director, officer or stockholder for an accounting, or to procure
 a judgment on the ground of fraud, or to enforce a liability, penalty or
 forfeiture, or to recover damages for waste or for an injury to property
 or for an accounting in conjunction therewith[.];
   8. an action based upon fraud; the time within which the  action  must
 be  commenced  shall be the greater of six years from the date the cause
 of action accrued or two years from the time the plaintiff or the person

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00981-01-5
 S. 1142                             2

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