Assembly Bill A9715A

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires certain businesses to notify past and present employees of eligibility for the September eleventh victim compensation fund

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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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2021-A9715 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9551
Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §399-rr, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A75, S2946

2021-A9715 - Summary

Requires businesses with fifty or more employees to notify past and present employees of eligibility for the September eleventh victim compensation fund.

2021-A9715 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9715
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 28, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Economic Development
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring busi-
   nesses  to  notify  past  and present employees of eligibility for the
   September eleventh victim compensation fund
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 399-rr to read as follows:
   §  399-RR.  SEPTEMBER  ELEVENTH VICTIM COMPENSATION FUND NOTIFICATION.
 1. DEFINITIONS.  FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE  FOLLOWING  TERMS
 SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   (A)  THE  "ELIGIBLE TIME PERIOD" SHALL BE ANY TIME BEGINNING SEPTEMBER
 ELEVENTH TWO THOUSAND ONE AND ENDING MAY THIRTIETH TWO THOUSAND TWO.
   (B) THE "EXPOSURE ZONE" SHALL  BE  DESIGNATED  AS  ALL  THAT  PART  OF
 MANHATTAN  SOUTH AND WEST OF A LINE RUNNING ALONG  CANAL STREET FROM THE
 HUDSON RIVER TO THE INTERSECTION OF  CANAL  STREET  AND  EAST  BROADWAY,
 NORTH  ON EAST BROADWAY TO CLINTON STREET, AND EAST ON CLINTON STREET TO
 THE EAST RIVER; AND ANY AREA RELATED TO OR ALONG THE  ROUTES  OF  DEBRIS
 REMOVAL, SUCH AS BARGES AND FRESH KILLS LANDFILL.
   (C)  THE  "SEPTEMBER  ELEVENTH  VICTIM COMPENSATION FUND" SHALL BE THE
 SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH VICTIM COMPENSATION FUND ESTABLISHED  UNDER  THE  AIR
 TRANSPORTATION SAFETY AND SYSTEM STABILIZATION ACT (49 USC 40101).
   2.  ANY  BUSINESS  WHICH  OPERATED WITHIN THE EXPOSURE ZONE DURING THE
 ELIGIBLE TIME PERIOD SHALL NOTIFY EACH PERSON EMPLOYED WITHIN THE  EXPO-
 SURE  ZONE  DURING THE ELIGIBLE TIME PERIOD OF THEIR ELIGIBILITY FOR THE
 SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH VICTIM COMPENSATION FUND.  THIS SHALL APPLY  TO  BOTH
 CURRENT AND FORMER EMPLOYEES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15191-01-2

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2021-A9715A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9551
Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §399-rr, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A75, S2946

2021-A9715A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires businesses with fifty or more employees to notify past and present employees of eligibility for the September eleventh victim compensation fund.

2021-A9715A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  9715--A
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 28, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Economic Development -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general  business law, in relation to requiring
   certain businesses to notify past and present employees of eligibility
   for the September eleventh victim compensation fund

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 399-rr to read as follows:
   §  399-RR.  SEPTEMBER  ELEVENTH VICTIM COMPENSATION FUND NOTIFICATION.
 1. DEFINITIONS.  FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE  FOLLOWING  TERMS
 SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   (A)  THE  "ELIGIBLE TIME PERIOD" SHALL BE ANY TIME BEGINNING SEPTEMBER
 ELEVENTH TWO THOUSAND ONE AND ENDING MAY THIRTIETH TWO THOUSAND TWO.
   (B) THE "EXPOSURE ZONE" SHALL  BE  DESIGNATED  AS  ALL  THAT  PART  OF
 MANHATTAN  SOUTH AND WEST OF A LINE RUNNING ALONG  CANAL STREET FROM THE
 HUDSON RIVER TO THE INTERSECTION OF  CANAL  STREET  AND  EAST  BROADWAY,
 NORTH  ON EAST BROADWAY TO CLINTON STREET, AND EAST ON CLINTON STREET TO
 THE EAST RIVER; AND ANY AREA RELATED TO OR ALONG THE  ROUTES  OF  DEBRIS
 REMOVAL, SUCH AS BARGES AND FRESH KILLS LANDFILL.
   (C)  THE  "SEPTEMBER  ELEVENTH  VICTIM COMPENSATION FUND" SHALL BE THE
 SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH VICTIM COMPENSATION FUND ESTABLISHED  UNDER  THE  AIR
 TRANSPORTATION SAFETY AND SYSTEM STABILIZATION ACT (49 USC 40101).
   2. ANY BUSINESS WITH FIFTY OR MORE EMPLOYEES WHICH OPERATED WITHIN THE
 EXPOSURE  ZONE  DURING THE ELIGIBLE TIME PERIOD SHALL NOTIFY EACH PERSON
 EMPLOYED WITHIN THE EXPOSURE ZONE DURING THE  ELIGIBLE  TIME  PERIOD  OF
 THEIR  ELIGIBILITY  FOR THE SEPTEMBER ELEVENTH VICTIM COMPENSATION FUND.
 THIS SHALL APPLY TO BOTH CURRENT AND FORMER EMPLOYEES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15191-02-2

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