Bill Text: NY A05728 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Prohibits a business from limiting access to its public restrooms to paying customers of such business; provides that a violation shall be subject to a civil penalty in the amount of five hundred dollars.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to economic development [A05728 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05728-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          5728
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 14, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, ABINANTI -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Economic Development
        AN ACT to amend the general business  law,  in  relation  to  access  to
          public restrooms
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  399-ii to read as follows:
     3    § 399-ii. Public restroom access. 1.  No  person,  firm,  partnership,
     4  association,  limited  liability  company, corporation or other business
     5  entity that offers access to restroom facilities  to  the  public  shall
     6  require,  as  a  condition for such access, that such person be a paying
     7  customer of such business.
     8    2. A violation of the provisions of this section shall  be  punishable
     9  by  a  civil  penalty  not  to  exceed  five  hundred  dollars  for each
    10  violation.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    12  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09751-01-9
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