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