Bill Text: NY A01987 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 1987 (Prior Session Legislation)

NY State Legislature page for A01987

Bill Title: Provides that COVID-19 was an event that could not have been foreseen or guarded against for the purposes of establishing the impossibility of performance of a contract entered into prior to March seventh, two thousand twenty.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to judiciary [A01987 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A01987-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1987--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. CRUZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Judiciary -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  providing  that  COVID-19 was an event that could not have been
          foreseen or guarded against  for  the  purposes  of  establishing  the
          impossibility of performance of a contract entered into prior to March
          seventh, two thousand twenty

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. For the  purposes  of  establishing  the  impossibility  of
     2  performance of a contract entered into prior to March seventh, two thou-
     3  sand  twenty,  the  outbreak  of  novel  coronavirus, COVID-19, shall be
     4  considered an unanticipated event that could not have been  foreseen  or
     5  guarded against in such contract.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02366-03-1