Bill Text: NY A09775 | 2017-2018 | 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) 2018-02-07 - referred to health [A09775 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A09775-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9775
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 7, 2018
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        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.  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    1. high chairs and booster seats;
    10    2. changing tables in all public restrooms;
    11    3.  child protection seats designed to mount on the wall of a restroom
    12  stall in all restrooms;
    13    4. a private room, pod or other location for the purpose of expression
    14  of breast milk or nursing, not including a  restroom  or  toilet  stall,
    15  with  at  least  one  electrical outlet, a clean water supply and a door
    16  with a functional lock; and
    17    5. stroller parking.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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