Bill Text: NY S07844 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring gender neutral bathrooms in state-owned buildings; requires each state agency to ensure, to the extent practicable, that all state-owned and state-leased buildings under its jurisdiction have at least one multiple-occupancy bathroom in such building designated as gender neutral.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-28 - PRINT NUMBER 7844A [S07844 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07844-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7844--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    December 29, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules  --  recommitted  to
          the  Committee  on Investigations and Government Operations in accord-
          ance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public  buildings  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
          gender neutral bathrooms in state-owned buildings

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The section heading of section 145 of the public  buildings
     2  law,  as amended by chapter 14 of the laws of 2020, is amended, subdivi-
     3  sion 1 is amended by adding a new paragraph (e), and a new subdivision 3
     4  is added to read as follows:
     5    Gender neutral [single-occupancy] bathrooms.
     6    (e) "multiple-occupancy bathroom" means  a  room  or  suite  of  rooms
     7  containing at least one sink and at least two sanitary fixtures, such as
     8  toilets  or  urinals, intended for simultaneous use by two or more occu-
     9  pants.
    10    3. Each state agency shall ensure, to the extent practicable, that all
    11  state-owned and state-leased buildings under its  jurisdiction  have  at
    12  least  one  multiple-occupancy  bathroom  in such building designated as
    13  gender neutral.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    15  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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