Bill Text: NY S05922 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that all single occupancy bathrooms in state owned or operated buildings and office space be designated as gender neutral.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-12-20 - APPROVAL MEMO.76 [S05922 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05922-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5922

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 16, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SALAZAR -- 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 requiring  that
          all single occupancy bathrooms in state owned or operated buildings be
          designated as gender neutral

          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  145 to read as follows:
     3    § 145. Gender neutral single occupancy bathrooms. The commissioner  of
     4  general services shall have the power and it shall be his or her duty to
     5  ensure  that  all  single occupancy bathrooms in state owned or operated
     6  buildings be designated as gender neutral  single  occupancy  bathrooms.
     7  For  purposes of this section: "state owned or operated buildings" shall
     8  mean any state owned property used  for  official  state  business,  and
     9  shall  include any building or office space, not owned by the state, but
    10  which is primarily used for official state business; and  "single  occu-
    11  pancy"  shall  mean  intended  for use by no more than one occupant at a
    12  time or for family or assisted use.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    14  have  become  a  law;  provided,  however,  that the addition, amendment
    15  and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
    16  of this act on its effective date is authorized to be made and completed
    17  on or before such effective date.



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