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Assembly Bill A11025

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to limiting the liability of a school

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2019-A11025 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A1101
2023-2024: A2410

2019-A11025 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2019-A11025 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11025
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              October 7, 2020
                                ___________
 
 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:

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

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