Bill Text: NY S01817 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Mandates the provision of lactation accommodations in airports.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-31 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S01817 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1817--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 11, 2017
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        Introduced by Sens. KENNEDY, COMRIE, HOYLMAN, KAMINSKY, PARKER, PERALTA,
          RANZENHOFER,  SQUADRON  --  read  twice  and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Health  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the transportation law, in relation to mandating the
          provision of lactation accommodations in airports
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "lactation
     2  accommodation in airports act".
     3    § 2. The transportation law is amended by adding a new section 14-n to
     4  read as follows:
     5    § 14-n. Airport lactation accommodation for nursing mothers. 1.  On or
     6  before June first, two thousand eighteen, the terminal  operator  of  an
     7  airport  owned  or  operated by a bi-state authority, airport authority,
     8  city or county that has scheduled passenger service and  that  has  more
     9  than  one  million  enplanements  per year shall provide a room or other
    10  facility at each airport terminal for members of the public  to  express
    11  breast milk in private that meets the following conditions:
    12    (a) includes, at a minimum, a chair and an electrical outlet;
    13    (b) is separate from a public restroom's facilities;
    14    (c) is located behind the airport security screening area; and
    15    (d)  is  available at minimum during times when the security screening
    16  area is in service.
    17    2. An airport, as described in subdivision one of this  section,  that
    18  has  fewer  than  one  million enplanements a year but not less than two
    19  hundred fifty thousand enplanements shall comply with the provisions  of
    20  subdivision  one  of this section only upon new terminal construction or
    21  upon the replacement, expansion or renovation of an existing terminal.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    3. As used in this section, "expansion or renovation  of  an  existing
     2  terminal"  shall  mean the increase in square footage by more than fifty
     3  percent of the current square footage of the existing terminal.
     4    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
     5  have become a law.