Bill Text: NY A07078 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires appearance enhancement business owners to provide masks and gloves to nail specialists.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-09-17 - signed chap.489 [A07078 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A07078-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        7078--A
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 19, 2009
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. ROSENTHAL, LANCMAN -- read once and referred to
         the Committee on Economic  Development,  Job  Creation,  Commerce  and
         Industry  -- recommitted to the Committee on Economic Development, Job
         Creation, Commerce and Industry in accordance with  Assembly  Rule  3,
         sec.  2  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
         amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the general  business  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
         appearance  enhancement business owners to provide masks and gloves to
         nail specialists
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
    2  404-b to read as follows:
    3    S  404-B.  NAIL  SPECIALTY; OWNER RESPONSIBILITIES. IN ADDITION TO ANY
    4  RULES AND REGULATIONS ESTABLISHING STANDARDS  FOR  PRACTICES  AND  OPER-
    5  ATIONS  BY  LICENSEES UNDER THIS ARTICLE, IN ORDER TO ENSURE THE HEALTH,
    6  SAFETY AND WELFARE WITHIN APPEARANCE ENHANCEMENT BUSINESSES, ALL  OWNERS
    7  AND  OPERATORS  OF APPEARANCE ENHANCEMENT BUSINESSES WHICH PRACTICE NAIL
    8  SPECIALTY SHALL MAKE AVAILABLE, UPON REQUEST, GLOVES AND  FACEMASKS  FOR
    9  NAIL SPECIALITY LICENSEES WHO WORK IN SUCH BUSINESSES. NO OWNER OR OPER-
   10  ATOR OF ANY APPEARANCE ENHANCEMENT BUSINESS THAT ENGAGES IN THE PRACTICE
   11  OF NAIL SPECIALITY SHALL PROHIBIT ANY LICENSEE PRACTICING NAIL SPECIALTY
   12  FROM  WEARING  A  MASK  OR  GLOVES WHILE ENGAGED IN THE PRACTICE OF NAIL
   13  SPECIALTY AT SUCH BUSINESS.
   14    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   15  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD10330-06-0