Bill Text: NY S00215 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of general services to ensure clean, safe drinking water is available in easily accessible locations for all public employees in state office buildings.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S00215 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S00215-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           215

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment Operations

        AN ACT to amend the public  buildings  law,  in  relation  to  providing
          access to clean water for public employees

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

     1    Section 1. The public buildings law is amended by adding a new section
     2  148 to read as follows:
     3    § 148. Public employee clean water access. 1. As used in this section,
     4  "covered public building" means a public building owned by the state  of
     5  New  York,  under  the  supervision  and  control of the commissioner of
     6  general services, that is determined by such commissioner to be a  state
     7  office building.
     8    2.  The  commissioner  of  general  services  shall ensure clean, safe
     9  drinking water is available  in  easily  accessible  locations  for  all
    10  public  employees in covered public buildings. Such drinking water shall
    11  be made available by the use of water jug dispensers or  filtered  water
    12  bottle filling stations. The commissioner shall make such drinking water
    13  available  in  the  manner  best  suited to reduce the use of single-use
    14  plastics, as determined by such commissioner.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    16  it shall have become a law.



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