Bill Text: NY A08101 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Prohibits state agencies from promulgating rules, regulations or any form of guidance requiring individuals under the age of eighteen who are not exhibiting COVID-19 related symptoms, as defined by the centers for disease control and prevention, to wear a mask or face covering in a public place or while participating in any recreational or organized sporting activity.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 26-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-26 - held for consideration in governmental operations [A08101 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A08101-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8101--A 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY June 11, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. TAGUE, BLANKENBUSH, ANGELINO, FRIEND, FITZPA- TRICK, MANKTELOW, ASHBY, DURSO, PALMESANO, SIMPSON, BRABENEC, LAWLER, HAWLEY, SMULLEN, DeSTEFANO, SALKA, GALLAHAN, BROWN, LALOR, SMITH, McDONOUGH, WOERNER, WALCZYK, BYRNES, BYRNE, LEMONDES, J. A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations -- recommitted to the Committee on Governmental Operations in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to prohibiting certain COVID-19 mask and face covering mandates by state agencies The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 170-f 2 to read as follows: 3 § 170-f. COVID-19 mask and face covering mandate. 1. No state agency 4 shall promulgate rules, regulations or any form of guidance requiring 5 individuals under the age of eighteen who are not exhibiting COVID-19 6 related symptoms, as defined by the centers for disease control and 7 prevention, to wear a mask or face covering in a public place or while 8 participating in any recreational or organized sporting activity. 9 2. For the purposes of this section: 10 (a) "state agency" shall mean any executive department, bureau, 11 commission, agency, board or other agency, any public authority, and the 12 judiciary and the legislature. 13 (b) "face-covering" shall include, but not be limited to, cloth masks, 14 surgical masks or N95 respirators. 15 (c) "public place" shall not include facilities established pursuant 16 to article twenty-eight of the public health law or private health care 17 facilities. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11780-03-2