S 1142: Relates to the statute of limitations for actions based on discriminatory practices in employment; establishes action must be commenced within six years.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1142 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE 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: 1 Section 1. The section heading and subdivisions 7, 8 and 9 of section 2 213 of the civil practice law and rules, the section heading as amended 3 and subdivision 7 as renumbered by chapter 43 of the laws of 1975, 4 subdivision 7 as amended by chapter 532 of the laws of 1963, and subdi- 5 vision 8 as amended by chapter 403 of the laws of 2004, and subdivision 6 9 as added by chapter 184 of the laws of 2019 are amended and a new 7 subdivision 10 is added to read as follows: 8 Actions to be commenced within six years: where not otherwise provided 9 for; on contract; on sealed instrument; on bond or note, and mortgage 10 upon real property; by state based on misappropriation of public proper- 11 ty; based on mistake; by corporation against director, officer or stock- 12 holder; based on fraud; based upon unlawful discriminatory practice in 13 employment. 14 7. an action by or on behalf of a corporation against a present or 15 former director, officer or stockholder for an accounting, or to procure 16 a judgment on the ground of fraud, or to enforce a liability, penalty or 17 forfeiture, or to recover damages for waste or for an injury to property 18 or for an accounting in conjunction therewith[.]; 19 8. an action based upon fraud; the time within which the action must 20 be commenced shall be the greater of six years from the date the cause 21 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 1 under whom the plaintiff claims discovered the fraud, or could with 2 reasonable diligence have discovered it[.]; 3 9. an action by the attorney general pursuant to article 4 twenty-three-A of the general business law or subdivision twelve of 5 section sixty-three of the executive law[.]; 6 10. an action based upon unlawful discriminatory practice in employ- 7 ment pursuant to article fifteen of the executive law. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 9 have become a law.