Assembly Bill A10861

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Establishes benefits and protections of essential employees providing essential services during a state of emergency

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A10861 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8645
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§20, 23, 24 & 29, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S2821
2023-2024: S6117

2019-A10861 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes benefits and protections for essential employees providing essential services during a state of emergency; defines essential services; requires certain disaster plans to provide measures to provide benefits and protections to employees providing essential services and requires such disaster plans to provide care to students aged 12 and under.

2019-A10861 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10861
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 24, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Cruz) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing  benefits
   and protections of essential employees during a state of emergency
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 20 of the executive law is amended
 by adding a new paragraph l to read as follows:
   L. "ESSENTIAL  SERVICES"  MEANS  SERVICES,  WHETHER  RENDERED  TO  THE
 GOVERNMENT  OR TO ANY OTHER PERSON, PROVIDED BY ESSENTIAL PERSONS, BUSI-
 NESSES, NON-PROFITS OR OTHER ENTITIES.
   § 2. Subparagraph 4 of paragraph a of subdivision 7 of section  23  of
 the  executive  law,  as amended by section 4 of part B of chapter 56 of
 the laws of 2010, is amended and two new subparagraphs 5 and 6 are added
 to read as follows:
   (4) such other measures as reasonably can be taken to  protect  lives,
 prevent disasters, and reduce their impact[.];
   (5)  SUCH  MEASURES AS REASONABLY CAN BE TAKEN TO PROVIDE ALL BENEFITS
 AND PROTECTIONS TO EMPLOYEES OF ESSENTIAL PERSONS, BUSINESSES,  NON-PRO-
 FITS  OR  OTHER  ENTITIES  PROVIDING  ESSENTIAL  SERVICES  THAT MAINTAIN
 SUPPORT FOR SUCH POSITIONS INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED  TO,  CHILD  CARE,
 MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND/OR PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT;
   (6) SUGGESTED MEASURES TO PROVIDE CARE TO, AT A MINIMUM, STUDENTS AGED
 TWELVE  AND UNDER. IN ORDER TO ENSURE THAT EMERGENCY PLANS ARE PROVIDING
 FOR THE NEEDS OF SUCH STUDENTS, SUCH PLANS SHALL CLARIFY THE  WORK  THAT
 FALLS  WITHIN EACH OF THE IDENTIFIED ESSENTIAL PERSONS, BUSINESSES, NON-
 PROFITS OR OTHER ENTITIES. ADDITIONALLY, SUCH PLANS  SHALL  BE  USED  BY
 CHILD CARE PROVIDERS TO PRIORITIZE THE NEEDS OF ESSENTIAL WORKERS DURING
 AN EMERGENCY.
   §  3.  Subparagraph (vi) of paragraph g of subdivision 1 of section 24
 of the executive law, as added by chapter 640 of the laws of 1978 and as
 relettered by chapter 158 of the laws of 1994, is amended  and  two  new
 paragraphs h and i are added to read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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