Bill Text: NY A01136 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to family accommodations, if readily achievable, in places of entertainment including high chairs, changing tables, child protection seats, breastfeeding rooms or pods and stroller parking.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to health [A01136 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01136-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1136
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 14, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. SIMOTAS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  family  accommo-
          dations in places of entertainment
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  2509 to read as follows:
     3    §  2509.  Family accommodations. 1. Unless it can be demonstrated that
     4  family accommodations are  not  readily  achievable,  as  referenced  in
     5  section  two  hundred  ninety-six  of  the  executive law, all places of
     6  entertainment, as defined in paragraph (i) of subdivision one of section
     7  23.03 of the arts and cultural affairs law, shall provide the  following
     8  family accommodations:
     9    (a) high chairs and booster seats;
    10    (b) changing tables in all public restrooms;
    11    (c) child protection seats designed to mount on the wall of a restroom
    12  stall in all restrooms;
    13    (d)  a  private  room,  pod  or  other  location  for  the  purpose of
    14  expression of breast milk or nursing, not including a restroom or toilet
    15  stall, with at least one electrical outlet, a clean water supply  and  a
    16  door with a functional lock;
    17    (e) stroller parking;
    18    (f)  designated  parking  spaces  for  pregnant women or families with
    19  children in parking areas for employees or customers; and
    20    (g) priority lanes for parents with children,  disabled,  elderly,  or
    21  pregnant customers.
    22    2.  Municipal  building inspectors or local code enforcement officials
    23  shall enforce the provisions of this section as part of  their  existing
    24  inspection process.
    25    §  2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
    26  law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01528-01-9