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Senate Bill S1766A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to nondisclosure agreements

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2025-S1766 - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Judiciary
Law Section:
Civil Practice Law and Rules
Laws Affected:
Amd §5003-b, CPLR
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S8802

2025-S1766 - Summary

Provides that a plaintiff shall have up to twenty-one days to consider whether any resolution to a claim involving discrimination, harassment or retaliation shall include the underlying facts of the claim or whether such underlying facts shall be kept confidential.

2025-S1766 - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1766 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1766
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 13, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- 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 nondis-
   closure agreements related to claims involving discrimination
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 5003-b of the civil  practice  law  and  rules,  as
 amended  by  chapter  160  of  the  laws  of 2019, is amended to read as
 follows:
   § 5003-b. Nondisclosure agreements. Notwithstanding any other  law  to
 the  contrary,  for  any claim or cause of action, whether arising under
 common law, equity, or any provision of law, the factual foundation  for
 which involves discrimination, in violation of laws prohibiting discrim-
 ination,  including but not limited to, article fifteen of the executive
 law, in resolving, by agreed judgment, stipulation, decree, agreement to
 settle, assurance of discontinuance or otherwise, no employer, its offi-
 cer or employee shall have the authority to include or agree to  include
 in  such resolution any term or condition that would prevent the disclo-
 sure of the underlying facts and circumstances to the  claim  or  action
 unless  the  condition of confidentiality is the plaintiff's preference.
 Any such term or condition must be provided  to  all  parties,  and  the
 plaintiff  shall  have  UP  TO  twenty-one days to consider such term or
 condition. If [after twenty-one days such term or  condition]  CONFIDEN-
 TIALITY  is the plaintiff's preference, such preference shall be memori-
 alized in an agreement signed by all parties. For a period of  at  least
 seven  days following the execution of such agreement, the plaintiff may
 revoke the agreement, and the agreement shall not become effective or be
 enforceable until such revocation period has expired.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05317-01-5

2025-S1766A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Judiciary
Law Section:
Civil Practice Law and Rules
Laws Affected:
Amd §5003-b, CPLR
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S8802

2025-S1766A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that a plaintiff shall have up to twenty-one days to consider whether any resolution to a claim involving discrimination, harassment or retaliation shall include the underlying facts of the claim or whether such underlying facts shall be kept confidential.

2025-S1766A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1766A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  1766--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 13, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed  to  be  committed  to the Committee on Judiciary -- committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, in relation to nondis-
   closure agreements related to claims involving discrimination
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  5003-b  of  the civil practice law and rules, as
 amended by chapter 160 of the laws  of  2019,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   §  5003-b.  Nondisclosure agreements. Notwithstanding any other law to
 the contrary, for any claim or cause of action,  whether  arising  under
 common  law, equity, or any provision of law, the factual foundation for
 which involves discrimination, HARASSMENT OR RETALIATION in violation of
 laws prohibiting SUCH discrimination, HARASSMENT OR RETALIATION, includ-
 ing but not limited to, article fifteen of the executive law, in resolv-
 ing, by agreed  judgment,  stipulation,  decree,  agreement  to  settle,
 assurance  of  discontinuance  or otherwise, no employer, its officer or
 employee shall have the authority to include or agree to include in such
 resolution any term or condition that would prevent  the  disclosure  of
 the underlying facts and circumstances to the claim or action unless the
 condition  of  confidentiality  is  the plaintiff's preference. Any such
 term or condition must be provided to all  parties,  and  the  plaintiff
 shall  have UP TO twenty-one days to consider such term or condition. If
 [after twenty-one days such term or condition]  CONFIDENTIALITY  is  the
 plaintiff's  preference,  such  preference  shall  be memorialized in an
 agreement signed by all parties. For a period of  at  least  seven  days
 following  the execution of such agreement, the plaintiff may revoke the
 agreement, and the agreement shall not become effective or be  enforcea-
 ble until such revocation period has expired.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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