Bill Text: NY S07211 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          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.
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