Bill Text: NY A10688 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to temporarily suspending medical and student debt collection during the COVID-19 covered period.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-01 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A10688 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10688-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10688

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 1, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Gottfried)
          -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Consumer  Affairs  and
          Protection

        AN ACT temporarily suspending medical and student debt collection during
          the COVID-19 covered period

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

     1    Section 1. For the purposes of this  act,  "COVID-19  covered  period"
     2  means  March 7, 2020 until the date on which none of the provisions that
     3  closed or otherwise restricted public or private businesses or places of
     4  public accommodation, or required postponement or  cancellation  of  all
     5  non-essential  gatherings  of  individuals of any size for any reason in
     6  executive orders 202.3,  202.4,  202.5,  202.6,  202.7,  202.8,  202.10,
     7  202.11,  202.13  or  202.14,  as extended by executive orders 202.28 and
     8  202.31 and as further extended by any future executive order, issued  in
     9  response to the COVID-19 pandemic continue to apply in the county of the
    10  insurer or debtors residence.
    11    §  2.  Notwithstanding  any  provision  of  law  to  the contrary, the
    12  collection of medical and student debt owed to the state of New York and
    13  referred to the office of the attorney general for  collection  will  be
    14  temporarily suspended to the end of COVID-19 covered period.
    15    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16691-01-0
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