STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10934 IN ASSEMBLY August 17, 2020 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Cusick) -- 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 without any limitation. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD16718-01-0