STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________
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