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NY A04696
Bill
Status
2/4/2021
Primary Sponsor
Steve Stern
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AI Summary
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Allows businesses ordered to cease or limit operations during a declared state disaster emergency to continue or resume operations if identical products or services are available at an open business in the same affected area.
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Requires businesses resuming operations under this provision to comply with all safety precautions mandated for businesses permitted to remain open.
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Creates identical protections for businesses ordered to cease or limit operations by state or local public health officials due to emergencies, epidemics, threatened epidemics, or unusual prevalence of communicable diseases.
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Defines "order" to include notices, standards, rules, or regulations issued by the health department or local public health agencies.
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Takes effect immediately, with amendments to executive law surviving the expiration of disaster emergency authorities under existing law.
Legislative Description
Enacts the "small business fairness act" to permit a business that has been ordered to cease or limit operations pursuant to an executive order due to a declared state disaster emergency to continue or resume operations if the products sold or services offered by the business are also available at a business that has not been required to cease or limit operations by the executive order or an order of the health department.
Last Action
referred to small business
1/5/2022