Governor Kathy Hochul signs the Adult Survivors Act in the Red Room at the State Capitol in Albany New York on May 24, 2022. Photo: Mike Groll/Office of Governor Kathy Hochul.
On May 24, 2022, less than one year after the revival window of the New York Child Victims Act (CVA) closed, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law the Adult Survivors Act (ASA) that the New York Assembly passed one day earlier.
The Adult Survivors Act works in much the same way as the CVA—it opens a one-year revival window commencing on Nov. 24, 2022, for adult sexual abuse survivors to bring previously time-barred claims against their abusers and/or the institutions that allegedly allowed the abuse to happen. Unlike the CVA, however, which opened the window only to survivors of child-aged sexual abuse, the ASA opens the window to file suit for all survivors who were 18 or older at the time of abuse. The ASA will thus impact any entity that regularly engaged with adults in any capacity.
