Bill Text: NY A00523 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 523

Bill Title: Relates to requiring gender neutral bathrooms in state-owned buildings; requires each state agency to ensure, to the extent practicable, that all state-owned and state-leased buildings under its jurisdiction have at least one multiple-occupancy bathroom in such building designated as gender neutral.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-21 - advanced to third reading cal.362 [A00523 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00523-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         523--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 9, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. EPSTEIN, RAGA, LEVENBERG, BURDICK -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations --  recommit-
          ted  to  the  Committee  on Governmental Operations 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 public  buildings  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
          gender neutral bathrooms in state-owned buildings

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

     1    Section 1. The section heading of section 145 of the public  buildings
     2  law,  as amended by chapter 14 of the laws of 2020, is amended, subdivi-
     3  sion 1 is amended by adding a new paragraph (e), and a new subdivision 3
     4  is added to read as follows:
     5    Gender neutral [single-occupancy] bathrooms.
     6    (e) "multiple-occupancy bathroom" means  a  room  or  suite  of  rooms
     7  containing at least one sink and at least two sanitary fixtures, such as
     8  toilets  or  urinals, intended for simultaneous use by two or more occu-
     9  pants.
    10    3. Each state agency shall ensure, to the extent practicable, that all
    11  state-owned and state-leased buildings under its  jurisdiction  have  at
    12  least  one  multiple-occupancy  bathroom  in such building designated as
    13  gender neutral.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    15  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02065-02-4