Bill Text: NY A11025 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Limits the liability of schools holding in-person instruction in compliance with state approved plans.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-10-07 - referred to education [A11025 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A11025-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          11025

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     October 7, 2020
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES  -- (at request of M. of A. Byrnes,
          Crouch, DeStefano, Giglio, Kolb, McDonough, Tague) --  read  once  and
          referred to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT in relation to limiting the liability of a school

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

     1    Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of law, rule or regulation to
     2  the contrary, any school that holds in-person instruction in  compliance
     3  with individual school plans approved by the state departments of educa-
     4  tion  and  health  and related COVID-19 emergency rules, or otherwise in
     5  accordance with applicable law and any further amendments  or  modifica-
     6  tions  thereto,  shall  not  be  liable  for any damages due to a person
     7  contracting novel coronavirus, COVID-19, while attending such  in-person
     8  instruction.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD17227-01-0