Bill Text: NY S01263 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits a government entity, its political subdivisions, agents or assigns from requiring individuals to wear face coverings or face masks.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S01263 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S01263-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1263 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 11, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. BORRELLO, OBERACKER -- read twice and ordered print- ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to prohibit a government entity, its political subdivisions, agents or assigns from requiring individuals to wear face coverings or face masks The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, regulation, 2 guidance or executive order to the contrary, no government entity, or 3 its political subdivisions, agents, or assigns, shall be permitted to 4 require, as a condition of receiving any service or entering any place, 5 an individual to wear a face covering or face mask when such purpose for 6 wearing the covering or mask is related to the COVID-19 virus. 7 2. Nothing in this act shall prohibit a private entity from requiring, 8 as a condition of receiving any service or entering any place, an indi- 9 vidual to wear a face covering or face mask. 10 3. Nothing in this act shall limit the ability of a nursing home, 11 long-term care facility or hospital to require an individual entering 12 such facility from wearing a face covering or face mask. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03959-01-3
