Provides that every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of the United States, subjects or causes to be subjected any citizen of New York or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the federal or state constitution shall be liable to the injured party in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8504
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
September 12, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to establishing civil
liability for the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities
secured by the federal or state constitution
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The civil rights law is amended by adding a new section
2 79-r to read as follows:
3 § 79-r. Deprivation of constitutional rights, privileges or immuni-
4 ties; civil liability. Every person who, under color of any statute,
5 ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of the United States, subjects
6 or causes to be subjected, any citizen of this state or other person
7 within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privi-
8 leges, or immunities secured by the constitution of the United States or
9 the constitution of the state of New York, shall be liable to the party
10 injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding
11 for redress.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
13 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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