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type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to establishing a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) public employee death benefit"
description: "Establishes a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) public employee death benefit for individuals who reported to their usual place of employment or an alternate worksite at the direction of their employer on or after March 1, 2020 and such individual contracted COVID-19 within 45 days of reporting to such workplace as confirmed by a laboratory test or by a licensed physician and such individual died on or before December 31, 2020."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2019-2020"
identifier: "S 8427"
citation: "New York S 8427 (2019-2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["GOUNARDES"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-05-28"
last_action: "2020-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aad7d860-a8c2-4164-bf9a-c9d39b612d96"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/S8427"
source_hash: "41ac7159d73d087c490ec13ae9d53bd8c538842af284185e8b718b42b327bf2b"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---
# New York S 8427 (2019-2020) — Relates to establishing a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) public employee death benefit
Establishes a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) public employee death benefit for individuals who reported to their usual place of employment or an alternate worksite at the direction of their employer on or after March 1, 2020 and such individual contracted COVID-19 within 45 days of reporting to such workplace as confirmed by a laboratory test or by a licensed physician and such individual died on or before December 31, 2020.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S8427** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S8427&term=2019&Text=Y)
## Votes
- Rules Vote — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote — **61–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **142–1** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- GOUNARDES — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-05-28** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-28** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.672
- **2020-05-28** MESSAGE OF NECESSITY - 3 DAY MESSAGE
- **2020-05-28** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2020-05-28** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2020-05-28** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2020-05-28** SUBSTITUTED FOR A10528
- **2020-05-28** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.59
- **2020-05-28** MESSAGE OF NECESSITY - 3 DAY MESSAGE
- **2020-05-28** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2020-05-28** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2020-05-30** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2020-05-30** SIGNED CHAP.89 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/aad7d860-a8c2-4164-bf9a-c9d39b612d96`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).