STATE OF NEW YORK
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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
