S 10498 NY
Relates to the commencement of certain sexual offense actions
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Summary
This New York bill extends the deadline for commencing revived civil sexual offense actions. The bill amends existing law that allows revival of claims for sexual offenses that were previously barred by statutes of limitation. The filing deadline for revived actions is extended from one year to two years and six months after the effective date of the law allowing such actions. The revival applies to claims alleging sexual offenses or incest against victims who were 18 years or older at the time of the offense, if the claims were previously barred due to expired statutes of limitation or failure to file a notice of claim. Previous dismissals of similar claims based on time-bar or failure to file notice cannot be grounds for dismissing revival actions under this law.
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Relates to the commencement of certain sexual offense actions; extends the time for such commencement to two years and six months after the effective date of the section of law allowing such actions.
Sponsor (1)
- Erik Bottcher Democratic · primary
2 coauthors / cosponsors
- Pete Harckham Democratic · cosponsor
- Jeremy Zellner Democratic · cosponsor
Action history (1)
- May 15, 2026 REFERRED TO JUDICIARY · upper
Text versions (2)
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  SPONSOR BOTTCHER   COSPNSR HARCKHAM, ZELLNER   MLTSPNSR   Amd §214-j, CPLR   Relates to the commencement of certain sexual offense actions; extends the time for such commencement to two years and six months after the effective date of the section of law allowing such actions.
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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________
10498
IN SENATE
May 15, 2026 ___________
Introduced by Sen. BOTTCHER -- 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 commencement of certain sexual offense actions
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 214-j of the civil practice law and rules, as added 2 by chapter 203 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 214-j. Certain sexual offense actions. Notwithstanding any provision 4 of law which imposes a period of limitation to the contrary and the 5 provisions of any other law pertaining to the filing of a notice of 6 claim or a notice of intention to file a claim as a condition precedent 7 to commencement of an action or special proceeding, every civil claim or 8 cause of action brought against any party alleging intentional or negli- 9 gent acts or omissions by a person for physical, psychological, or other 10 injury or condition suffered as a result of conduct which would consti- 11 tute a sexual offense as defined in article one hundred thirty of the 12 penal law committed against such person who was eighteen years of age or 13 older, or incest as defined in section 255.26 or 255.27 of the penal law 14 committed against such person who was eighteen years of age or older, 15 which is barred as of the effective date of this section because the 16 applicable period of limitation has expired, and/or the plaintiff previ- 17 ously failed to file a notice of claim or a notice of intention to file 18 a claim, is hereby revived, and action thereon may be commenced not 19 earlier than six months after, and not later than [ one year ] two years 20 and six months after the effective date of this section. In any such 21 claim or action, dismissal of a previous action, ordered before the 22 effective date of this section, on grounds that such previous action was 23 time barred, and/or for failure of a party to file a notice of claim or 24 a notice of intention to file a claim, shall not be grounds for dismiss- 25 al of a revival action pursuant to this section. 26 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD15685-01-6
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