Bill Text: NY A02425 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires full family service restroom facilities in public buildings.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 30-6)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A02425 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02425-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2425--A
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 22, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. LAVINE, M. L. MILLER, JAFFEE, ABINANTI, ARROYO,
          WILLIAMS, ORTIZ, CRESPO, MOSLEY,  SOLAGES,  D'URSO,  COOK,  RODRIGUEZ,
          L. ROSENTHAL,   PHEFFER AMATO,  RA,  SEAWRIGHT,  MORINELLO,  LAWRENCE,
          BLAKE, DICKENS, PEOPLES-STOKES, TAYLOR,  BRAUNSTEIN,  COLTON,  GIGLIO,
          M. G. MILLER,  GOTTFRIED,  WALLACE  --  Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          DINOWITZ, GALEF, HEVESI, LUPARDO, McDONOUGH,  SIMON,  THIELE  --  read
          once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on Governmental Operations --
          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 full
          family service restroom facilities in public buildings
          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  54 to read as follows:
     3    §  54.  Restroom  accessibility  and equipment requirements for public
     4  buildings. 1. In addition to all of the requirements of the state build-
     5  ing code referenced in section fifty-one of this article, all  buildings
     6  constructed  after  the effective date of this section which are covered
     7  by this article shall be required to include, at a minimum, at least one
     8  family restroom, accessible from any point within the building  open  to
     9  the  public,  which  is  to be equipped such that a caregiver is able to
    10  attend to the sanitary and hygienic needs of any person affected by  any
    11  combination  of  physical  and/or  cognitive disabilities such that they
    12  require constant assistance with activities for daily living, including,
    13  but are not strictly limited to, an inability  to  utilize  conventional
    14  restroom facilities.
    15    2.  The  precise  configuration  and  equipment to be included in such
    16  family restroom facilities shall be determined  pursuant  to  rules  and
    17  regulations  promulgated  by  the department of state codes division, in
    18  cooperation with the office for persons with developmental disabilities,
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  and with the input of an independent party, appointed by  the  governor,
     2  who is a person with disabilities or who is the parent or legal guardian
     3  of  a  person whose disabilities prevent their use of conventional rest-
     4  room  facilities.  The  equipment is to include a horizontal flat raised
     5  surface area suitable for safely diapering an adult person of  at  least
     6  two  hundred  fifty pounds weight and equipped with a system to sanitize
     7  the surface. All such rules and regulations  shall  be  promulgated  and
     8  implemented within one hundred eighty days of the effective date of this
     9  section.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.