Bill Text: NY A09715 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires businesses with fifty or more employees to notify past and present employees of eligibility for the September eleventh victim compensation fund.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-01 - print number 9715a [A09715 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09715-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9715--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 28, 2022
                                       ___________

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

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general  business law, in relation to requiring
          certain businesses to notify past and present employees of eligibility
          for the September eleventh victim compensation fund

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

     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  399-rr to read as follows:
     3    §  399-rr.  September  eleventh victim compensation fund notification.
     4  1. Definitions.  For the purposes of this section, the  following  terms
     5  shall have the following meanings:
     6    (a)  the  "eligible time period" shall be any time beginning September
     7  eleventh two thousand one and ending May thirtieth two thousand two.
     8    (b) the "exposure zone" shall  be  designated  as  all  that  part  of
     9  Manhattan  south and west of a line running along  Canal Street from the
    10  Hudson River to the intersection of  Canal  Street  and  East  Broadway,
    11  north  on East Broadway to Clinton Street, and east on Clinton Street to
    12  the East River; and any area related to or along the  routes  of  debris
    13  removal, such as barges and Fresh Kills landfill.
    14    (c)  the  "September  eleventh  victim compensation fund" shall be the
    15  September eleventh victim compensation fund established  under  the  Air
    16  Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act (49 USC 40101).
    17    2. Any business with fifty or more employees which operated within the
    18  exposure  zone  during the eligible time period shall notify each person
    19  employed within the exposure zone during the  eligible  time  period  of
    20  their  eligibility  for the September eleventh victim compensation fund.
    21  This shall apply to both current and former employees.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15191-02-2