Bill Text: NY A11377 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires that all single occupancy bathrooms in state owned or operated buildings be designated as gender neutral; requires installation of a single occupancy bathroom in the event a building does not have such bathroom on the effective date of this act.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-10-19 - referred to governmental operations [A11377 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A11377-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 11377 IN ASSEMBLY October 19, 2018 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Fernandez) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the public buildings law, in relation to requiring that all single occupancy bathrooms in state owned or operated buildings be designated as gender neutral 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 2 145 to read as follows: 3 § 145. Gender neutral single occupancy bathrooms. 1. The commissioner 4 of general services shall have the power and it shall be his or her duty 5 to ensure that all single occupancy bathrooms in state owned or operated 6 buildings be designated as gender neutral single occupancy bathrooms. 7 For purposes of this section: "state owned or operated buildings" shall 8 mean any state owned property used for official state business, and 9 shall include any building or office space, not owned by the state, but 10 which is primarily used for official state business; and "single occu- 11 pancy" shall mean intended for use by no more than one occupant at a 12 time or for family or assisted use. 13 2. In the event that a state owned or operated building does not have 14 a single occupancy bathroom on the effective date of this section, the 15 commissioner of general services shall require such building to install 16 a single occupancy bathroom. Such installation of a single occupancy 17 bathroom shall be completed within one year of the effective date of 18 this section. Single occupancy bathrooms installed pursuant to this 19 section shall be designated as gender neutral. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 21 have become a law; provided, however, that the addition, amendment 22 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation 23 of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 24 completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD16564-01-8