Bill Text: NY A05240 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to making all single-occupancy bathrooms gender neutral in school districts, charter schools, SUNY, CUNY, community colleges, restaurants, bars, mercantile establishments, factories and state owned or operated buildings.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 55-3)

Status: (Passed) 2020-12-23 - signed chap.353 [A05240 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05240-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5240
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 7, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. O'DONNELL, DICKENS, MOSLEY, JAFFEE, ORTIZ, BLAKE,
          CRESPO,  THIELE,  SIMON,  GALEF, ARROYO, GLICK, WALLACE, RAIA, HEVESI,
          ABINANTI,  D'URSO,  QUART,  CUSICK,  HYNDMAN,  DE LA ROSA,   PICHARDO,
          LIFTON,  BRONSON,  SEAWRIGHT,  STECK,  RIVERA,  NIOU,  ROZIC, SIMOTAS,
          BYRNE, BICHOTTE, SANTABARBARA, WOERNER, FAHY, VANEL, GUNTHER,  WALKER,
          NOLAN,  ZEBROWSKI,  WRIGHT,  CAHILL,  STIRPE,  SOLAGES,  LENTOL,  KIM,
          EPSTEIN, JEAN-PIERRE, WEINSTEIN, PERRY, CARROLL, PHEFFER AMATO, JONES,
          GOTTFRIED, BUCHWALD -- read once and  referred  to  the  Committee  on
          Governmental Operations
        AN  ACT to amend the civil rights law and the education law, in relation
          to single occupancy bathroom facilities
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  civil  rights law is amended by adding a new section
     2  79-o to read as follows:
     3    § 79-o. Gender neutral single occupancy bathroom facilities.   1.  All
     4  single occupancy bathroom facilities located in public places, including
     5  but not limited to those located in restaurants, bars, mercantile estab-
     6  lishments,  factories  or  state-owned  or  operated buildings, shall be
     7  designated as gender neutral for use by no more than one occupant  at  a
     8  time  or  for  family  or  assisted  use.  For purposes of this section,
     9  "state-owned or operated buildings" shall mean any state-owned  property
    10  used  for  official  state  business  and  shall include any building or
    11  office space, not owned by the state, but which primary use is for offi-
    12  cial state business.
    13    2. Such gender neutral bathroom facilities shall be clearly designated
    14  by the posting of such on or near each facility.
    15    § 2. The education law is amended by adding a  new  section  409-m  to
    16  read as follows:
    17    §  409-m.  Gender  neutral  single occupancy bathroom facilities.  The
    18  board of education or trustees of every school district or, in the  case
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 5240                             2
     1  of the city school district of New York, the chancellor, and every board
     2  of cooperative educational services, charter school and nonpublic school
     3  within  the  state  shall develop policies and procedures requiring that
     4  all  single  occupancy  bathroom  facilities  are  designated  as gender
     5  neutral for use by no more than one occupant at a time or for family  or
     6  assisted  use.  Such gender neutral bathroom facilities shall be clearly
     7  designated by the posting of such on or near each facility.
     8    § 3. Section 355 of the education law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     9  subdivision 20 to read as follows:
    10    20.  The  state  university  trustees shall adopt rules requiring that
    11  each institution of the state university of New York adopt written poli-
    12  cies requiring that all public single occupancy bathroom  facilities  be
    13  designated  as  gender neutral for use by no more than one occupant at a
    14  time or for family or assisted use. Such gender neutral bathroom facili-
    15  ties shall be clearly designated by the posting of such on or near  each
    16  facility.
    17    §  4.  Section  6206  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
    18  subdivision 20 to read as follows:
    19    20. The board of trustees shall adopt rules requiring that each insti-
    20  tution of the city university of New York adopt written policies requir-
    21  ing that all public single occupancy bathroom facilities  be  designated
    22  as  gender neutral for use by no more than one occupant at a time or for
    23  family or assisted use. Such gender neutral bathroom facilities shall be
    24  clearly designated by the posting of such on or near each facility.
    25    § 5. Section 6306 of the education law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    26  subdivision 11 to read as follows:
    27    11.  The board of trustees of each community college shall adopt writ-
    28  ten policies requiring that all public single occupancy bathroom facili-
    29  ties be designated as gender neutral for use by no more than  one  occu-
    30  pant  at  a  time  or  for  family  or assisted use. Such gender neutral
    31  bathroom facilities shall be clearly designated by the posting  of  such
    32  on or near each facility.
    33    §  6.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    34  have become a law.