0:07 → 3:10(3m 3s)
Speaker called the House to order, led a moment of silence and the Pledge of Allegiance; clerk read the journal. Leadership previewed the day's calendar and said members would continue to work a main calendar and an A calendar. (Presiding: the Speaker)
New York State Assembly met in a remote session to consider a package of COVID-19–related bills: suspending certain unemployment 'forfeit day' penalties, authorizing pharmacists to administer a future COVID-19 vaccine, changing absentee ballot procedures, a $100 million emergency rental assistance package, a local-option property tax deferral measure, rules for remote preliminary criminal hearings, a DOH study of COVID-19 racial/ethnic disparities, and a temporary utility-disconnection moratorium.
