Bill Text: NY S00040 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
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 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S00040 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S00040-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 40--A 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 6, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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. LBD02366-02-1
