Bill Text: NY S07211 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to denial of access to an employee toilet facility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2020-10-07 - signed chap.208 [S07211 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S07211-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7211 IN SENATE January 10, 2020 ___________ Introduced by Sen. FELDER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection AN ACT the amend the general business law, in relation to denial of access to an employee toilet facility 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 2 494 to read as follows: 3 § 494. Denial of access. 1. The consumer protection division, as 4 established in section ninety-four-a of the executive law, shall have 5 the power and duty: 6 (a) to receive complaints from any individual that has been denied 7 access to an employee toilet facility in violation of this article; 8 (b) to attempt to mediate such complaints where appropriate; and 9 (c) to refer such complaints to the appropriate unit of the department 10 or the federal, state or other agency authorized by law for appropriate 11 action on such complaints. 12 2. Any county, city or town office of consumer protection shall have 13 the power and duty: 14 (a) to receive complaints from any individual that has been denied 15 access to an employee toilet facility in violation of this article; 16 (b) to attempt to mediate such complaints where appropriate; and 17 (c) to refer such complaints to the appropriate unit of the department 18 or the federal, state or other agency authorized by law for appropriate 19 action on such complaints. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14074-02-9