Bill Text: NY A08336 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that food services at transportation facilities and rest areas owned and operated by certain public authorities remain open seven days a week.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A08336 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08336-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8336

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    December 13, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. SIMONE, KELLES -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law and chapter 154 of  the  laws
          of 1921, relating to the port authority of New York and New Jersey, in
          relation  to contracts to provide food services at authority owned and
          operated transportation facilities and rest areas

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

     1    Section  1.  The  public  authorities  law  is amended by adding a new
     2  section 390 to read as follows:
     3    § 390. Contracts for food service.  Any contracts entered into for the
     4  operation of food services or food concessions at public  transportation
     5  facilities  owned  or  operated by the authority shall require that such
     6  services be provided every day of the week. For  the  purposes  of  this
     7  section  the  term  "public  transportation  facilities"  shall mean and
     8  include thruway rest areas, service areas  and  welcome  centers.    The
     9  provisions  of  this section shall not apply to temporary concessions or
    10  events including farmers'  markets,  flea  markets  or    local  vendors
    11  licensed or permitted to operate by the authority.
    12    §  2.  Subparagraph 6 of paragraph f of subdivision 3 of article IV of
    13  section 1 of chapter 154 of the laws  of  1921,  relating  to  the  port
    14  authority  of  New York and New Jersey, as amended by chapter 495 of the
    15  laws of 2023, is amended and a new subparagraph 7 is added  to  read  as
    16  follows:
    17    (6)  provide  information  concerning  services  for human trafficking
    18  victims in port authority bus terminals. 1. Any bus terminal  maintained
    19  or operated by the port authority shall make available in plain view and
    20  in  a  conspicuous  place  and manner in the public restrooms and in any
    21  lactation rooms, informational cards and/or signs developed by:
    22    (a) the office of temporary and disability assistance in  consultation
    23  with the New York state interagency task force on human trafficking; or

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (b) the United States Department of Homeland Security.
     2    2. All informational cards and signs shall  only  contain  information
     3  concerning  services for human trafficking victims and shall prominently
     4  include the national human trafficking hotline telephone number.
     5    3. For purposes of this section, "lactation room" shall mean a hygien-
     6  ic place, other than a restroom, that: (a) is shielded from view; (b) is
     7  free  from  intrusion;  (c) contains a chair, a working surface, and, if
     8  the building is otherwise   supplied  with  electricity,  an  electrical
     9  outlet;  and  (d)  is  intended  to  be  used for the primary purpose of
    10  breastfeeding or expressing breast milk[.]; and
    11    (7) establish a policy  that  contracts  for  the  operation  of  food
    12  services  or food concessions at transportation facilities owned by such
    13  authority shall require that such services be provided every day of  the
    14  week.  For the purposes of this section the term "transportation facili-
    15  ties" shall mean and include bus stations, train  stations,  rest  areas
    16  and  marine  terminal facilities.   The provisions of this section shall
    17  not apply to temporary concessions or events including farmers' markets,
    18  flea markets or  local vendors licensed or permitted to operate  by  the
    19  authority.
    20    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    21  have become a law and shall apply to contracts entered into on and after
    22  such date; provided, however that section two of this act  shall    take
    23  effect  upon    the   enactment   into law by the state of New Jersey of
    24  legislation having an identical effect with this act, but if  the  state
    25  of  New Jersey shall have already enacted such legislation, such section
    26  shall take  effect immediately;  provided  that   the   chairman of  the
    27  port  authority of New Jersey shall notify the legislative bill drafting
    28  commission  upon  the  occurrence  of  the enactment of the  legislation
    29  provided for in section two of this act in order that the commission may
    30  maintain   an  accurate and  timely  effective  database of the official
    31  text of the laws of the state of New York in  furtherance  of effectuat-
    32  ing  the  provisions  of section  44  of the legislative law and section
    33  70-b of the public officers law.