Bill Text: NY A05240 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
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-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5240--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 7, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. O'DONNELL, DICKENS, MOSLEY, JAFFEE, ORTIZ, BLAKE, CRESPO, THIELE, SIMON, GALEF, ARROYO, GLICK, WALLACE, HEVESI, ABINAN- TI, 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, GOTT- FRIED, BUCHWALD, REYES, LAVINE, SMULLEN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations -- recommitted to the Commit- tee 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 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-p to read as follows: 3 § 79-p. 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, or factories, shall be designated as gender neutral for use 7 by no more than one occupant at a time or for family or assisted use. 8 For purposes of this section, "single-occupancy bathroom" shall have the 9 same meaning as paragraph (d) of subdivision one of section one hundred 10 forty-five of the public buildings law. 11 2. Such gender neutral bathroom facilities shall be clearly designated 12 by the posting of such on or near the entry door of each facility. 13 § 2. The education law is amended by adding a new section 409-m to 14 read as follows: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03015-02-0A. 5240--A 2 1 § 409-m. Gender neutral single-occupancy bathroom facilities. The 2 board of education or trustees of every school district or, in the case 3 of the city school district of New York, the chancellor, and every board 4 of cooperative educational services, charter school and nonpublic school 5 within the state shall develop policies and procedures requiring that 6 all single-occupancy bathroom facilities are designated as gender 7 neutral for use by no more than one occupant at a time or for family or 8 assisted use. Such gender neutral bathroom facilities shall be clearly 9 designated by the posting of such on or near the entry door of each 10 facility. For purposes of this section, "single-occupancy bathroom" 11 shall have the same meaning as paragraph (d) of subdivision one of 12 section one hundred forty-five of the public buildings law. 13 § 3. Section 355 of the education law is amended by adding a new 14 subdivision 20 to read as follows: 15 20. The state university trustees shall adopt rules requiring that 16 each institution of the state university of New York adopt written poli- 17 cies requiring that all public single-occupancy bathroom facilities be 18 designated as gender neutral for use by no more than one occupant at a 19 time or for family or assisted use. Such gender neutral bathroom facili- 20 ties shall be clearly designated by the posting of such on or near the 21 entry door of each facility. For purposes of this section, "single-oc- 22 cupancy bathroom" shall have the same meaning as paragraph (d) of subdi- 23 vision one of section one hundred forty-five of the public buildings 24 law. 25 § 4. Section 6206 of the education law is amended by adding a new 26 subdivision 20 to read as follows: 27 20. The board of trustees shall adopt rules requiring that each insti- 28 tution of the city university of New York adopt written policies requir- 29 ing that all public single-occupancy bathroom facilities be designated 30 as gender neutral for use by no more than one occupant at a time or for 31 family or assisted use. Such gender neutral bathroom facilities shall be 32 clearly designated by the posting of such on or near the entry door of 33 each facility. For purposes of this section, "single-occupancy bath- 34 room" shall have the same meaning as paragraph (d) of subdivision one of 35 section one hundred forty-five of the public buildings law. 36 § 5. Section 6306 of the education law is amended by adding a new 37 subdivision 11 to read as follows: 38 11. The board of trustees of each community college shall adopt writ- 39 ten policies requiring that all public single-occupancy bathroom facili- 40 ties be designated as gender neutral for use by no more than one occu- 41 pant at a time or for family or assisted use. Such gender neutral 42 bathroom facilities shall be clearly designated by the posting of such 43 on or near the entry door of each facility. For purposes of this 44 section, "single-occupancy bathroom" shall have the same meaning as 45 paragraph (d) of subdivision one of section one hundred forty-five of 46 the public buildings law. 47 § 6. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 48 have become a law.
