Bill Text: NY A09934 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Requires the office of temporary and disability assistance to promulgate any rules and regulations necessary to remove the word handicapped from any signs or means of communication where such word appears; further requires that anywhere where it is required that the current universal symbol of access of figure in a wheelchair appear that such signage instead depict a logo with a dynamic character leaning forward with a sense of movement; applies only to new signs.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-1)

Status: (Passed) 2014-07-25 - signed chap.190 [A09934 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A09934-Amended.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        9934--A
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 30, 2014
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       Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Galef) --
         read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations  --
         reported  and  referred  to  the Committee on Rules -- Rules Committee
         discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
         to the Committee on Rules
       AN ACT to amend the executive law and the vehicle and  traffic  law,  in
         relation  to certain signs relating to accessibility and related rules
         and regulations
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.   The executive law is amended by adding a new section 101
    2  to read as follows:
    3    S 101. ACCESSIBILITY, RULES  AND  REGULATIONS.  1.  THE  SECRETARY  OF
    4  STATE,  IN  CONSULTATION  WITH  ANY  OTHER  STATE AGENCY HE OR SHE DEEMS
    5  NECESSARY, SHALL PROMULGATE  ANY  RULES  AND  REGULATIONS  NECESSARY  TO
    6  REMOVE  THE WORD "HANDICAPPED" FROM ANY SIGNS OR OTHER MEANS OF COMMUNI-
    7  CATION WHERE SUCH WORD APPEARS.
    8    2. THE SECRETARY OF STATE, IN CONSULTATION WITH ANY OTHER STATE AGENCY
    9  HE OR SHE DEEMS NECESSARY, SHALL PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS NECES-
   10  SARY TO REQUIRE THAT WHEREVER THE CURRENT UNIVERSAL SYMBOL OF ACCESS  OF
   11  A  FIGURE  IN  A  WHEELCHAIR APPEARS, SUCH SYMBOL SHALL INSTEAD DEPICT A
   12  LOGO WITH A DYNAMIC CHARACTER LEANING FORWARD WITH A SENSE OF  MOVEMENT.
   13  SUCH LOGO SHALL BE READILY IDENTIFIABLE, SIMPLY DESIGNED WITH NO SECOND-
   14  ARY  MEANING,  AND PROVIDE FOR EQUIVALENT FACILITATION AND ACCESSIBILITY
   15  AS THE CURRENT UNIVERSAL SYMBOL OF ACCESS. THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDI-
   16  VISION SHALL ONLY APPLY TO ANY NEW SIGNS BEING INSTALLED OR REPLACED  ON
   17  AND AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION.
   18    S  2. Subparagraph 2 of paragraph (b) of subdivision 20 of section 375
   19  of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 242 of the laws of
   20  1992, is amended to read as follows:
   21    (2) The universal handicapped symbol shall be conspicuously  displayed
   22  on  the  exterior of every omnibus equipped with a wheelchair lift which
   23  transports children with disabilities. The commissioner shall promulgate
   24  regulations regarding the size and  location  of  such  universal  hand-
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15444-02-4
       A. 9934--A                          2
    1  icapped  symbol.  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  REQUIRE THAT ANY NEW SIGNAGE
    2  RELATING TO ACCESSIBILITY INSTALLED OR REPLACED ON OR AFTER  THE  EFFEC-
    3  TIVE  DATE  OF  THE  CHAPTER  OF THE LAWS OF TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN WHICH
    4  AMENDED  THIS  SUBPARAGRAPH DEPICT THE LOGO PROMULGATED BY THE SECRETARY
    5  OF STATE PURSUANT TO SECTION ONE HUNDRED ONE OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW.
    6    S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    7  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
    8  ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal  of  any  rule  or  regulation
    9  necessary  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are
   10  authorized and directed to be made  and  completed  on  or  before  such
   11  effective date.
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