 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2410
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 26, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. BYRNES, LEMONDES, DeSTEFANO, MORINELLO, GALLAHAN
          -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. J. M. GIGLIO, MANKTELOW,  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.
                                                                   LBD03945-01-3
Limits the liability of a school

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