Bill Text: NY S00815 | 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: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-06-12 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S00815 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00815-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           815
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
        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
    19  of the city school district of New York, the chancellor, and every board
    20  of cooperative educational services, charter school and nonpublic school
    21  within the state shall develop policies and  procedures  requiring  that
    22  all  single  occupancy  bathroom  facilities  are  designated  as gender
    23  neutral for use by no more than one occupant at a time or for family  or
    24  assisted  use.  Such gender neutral bathroom facilities shall be clearly
    25  designated by the posting of such on or near each facility.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    § 3. Section 355 of the education law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  subdivision 20 to read as follows:
     3    20.  The  state  university  trustees shall adopt rules requiring that
     4  each institution of the state university of New York adopt written poli-
     5  cies requiring that all public single occupancy bathroom  facilities  be
     6  designated  as  gender neutral for use by no more than one occupant at a
     7  time or for family or assisted use. Such gender neutral bathroom facili-
     8  ties shall be clearly designated by the posting of such on or near  each
     9  facility.
    10    §  4.  Section  6206  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
    11  subdivision 20 to read as follows:
    12    20. The board of trustees shall adopt rules requiring that each insti-
    13  tution of the city university of New York adopt written policies requir-
    14  ing that all public single occupancy bathroom facilities  be  designated
    15  as  gender neutral for use by no more than one occupant at a time or for
    16  family or assisted use. Such gender neutral bathroom facilities shall be
    17  clearly designated by the posting of such on or near each facility.
    18    § 5. Section 6306 of the education law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    19  subdivision 11 to read as follows:
    20    11.  The board of trustees of each community college shall adopt writ-
    21  ten policies requiring that all public single occupancy bathroom facili-
    22  ties be designated as gender neutral for use by no more than  one  occu-
    23  pant  at  a  time  or  for  family  or assisted use. Such gender neutral
    24  bathroom facilities shall be clearly designated by the posting  of  such
    25  on or near each facility.
    26    §  6.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    27  have become a law.