Bill Text: NY A10809 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires the department of health to develop rules for all courts in New York state to protect the court employees and the public from COVID-19.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-15 - referred to health [A10809 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10809-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10809

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 15, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Jacobson) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Health

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public health law, in relation to requiring the
          department of health to develop rules for all courts in New York state
          to protect the court employees and the public from COVID-19

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1 of section 201 of the public health law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (y) to read as follows:
     3    (y) develop rules, standards and guidelines for measures to be  imple-
     4  mented  at  every  court in the state to protect the court employees and
     5  the public from the spread of the novel coronavirus  (COVID-19)  includ-
     6  ing,  but not limited to: (i) protective barriers to be installed at the
     7  judge's bench, the witness stand, the jury box and such other  locations
     8  as  the  department  shall  deem  necessary;  (ii)  standards for social
     9  distancing and the wearing of face coverings by court employees  and  by
    10  members  of  the  public participating in or watching court proceedings;
    11  (iii) testing of all court employees after it is discovered that a court
    12  employee or member of the public at the court facility has tested  posi-
    13  tive  for COVID-19; (iv) quarantine of any court employee who has tested
    14  positive and the requirement that said infected employee produce a nega-
    15  tive test result before being allowed to return to work;  and  (v)  such
    16  other measures as the department may deem necessary or desirable.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16868-02-0
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