Bill Text: NY A10685 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires information concerning services for human trafficking victims to be made available in lactation rooms in commercial service airports.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-09-09 - referred to transportation [A10685 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10685-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10685

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    September 9, 2022
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Paulin) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to requiring  infor-
          mation  concerning  services  for human trafficking victims to be made
          available in lactation rooms in commercial service airports

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Subdivisions 1 and paragraphs (d), (e) and (f) of subdivi-
     2  sion 4 of section 14-n of the transportation law, as  added  by  chapter
     3  389 of the laws of 2022, are amended to read as follows:
     4    1.  The operator of a commercial service airport and the operator of a
     5  general aviation airport shall make available in  the  public  restrooms
     6  and in any lactation rooms, in plain view and in a conspicuous place and
     7  manner, informational cards and/or signs developed by:
     8    (a)  the office of temporary and disability assistance in consultation
     9  with the New York state interagency task force on human trafficking; or
    10    (b) the United States Department of Homeland Security.
    11    (d) "lactation room" shall mean a hygienic place, other than  a  rest-
    12  room, that is intended to be used for the primary purpose of breastfeed-
    13  ing or expressing breast milk;
    14    (e)  "passenger  boardings"  shall mean revenue passenger boardings in
    15  the prior calendar year on an aircraft in service in  air  commerce,  as
    16  the  United  States  secretary  of  transportation determines, including
    17  passengers who continue on an  aircraft  in  international  flight  that
    18  stops at an airport in the state for a nontraffic purpose;
    19    [(e)]  (f)  "public  airport"  means an airport used or intended to be
    20  used for public purposes: (i) that is under the control of the state,  a
    21  county,  city,  town, or village or a state or local authority; and (ii)
    22  of which the area used or intended to be used for  the  landing,  taking
    23  off,  or  surface  maneuvering  of aircraft is publicly owned. Provided,
    24  however, such term shall not include any airport operated by a  bi-state
    25  authority; and
    26    [(f)] (g) "public-use airport" shall mean an airport available for use
    27  by  the  general  public without a requirement for the prior approval of

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 10685                            2

     1  the owner or operator thereof except as may be required by  federal  law
     2  or regulation.
     3    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
     4  manner as chapter 389 of the laws of 2022, takes effect.