Bill Text: NY A01178 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Designates residential construction as an essential business during the COVID-19 state disaster emergency.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to housing [A01178 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A01178-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1178

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 7, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. CUSICK, BUTTENSCHON, FAHY, ENGLEBRIGHT, GRIFFIN,
          RAMOS, STERN, THIELE, WOERNER, MONTESANO, NORRIS, SCHMITT -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Housing

        AN ACT in relation to defining residential construction as an  essential
          business

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule  or  regu-
     2  lation  during  the  period  of the COVID-19 state disaster emergency as
     3  declared pursuant to executive order 202 of 2020, and extensions  there-
     4  of,  and  article  2-B  of  the  executive  law,  essential business, as
     5  provided  for  in  executive  order  202.6,  shall  include  residential
     6  construction  not  in  excess  of three stories, notwithstanding whether
     7  such construction is defined as affordable.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01252-01-1
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