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S06213 Summary:

BILL NOS06213
 
SAME ASSAME AS A04264
 
SPONSORWEBB
 
COSPNSRMARTINEZ
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §390-d, Gen Bus L
 
Requires information concerning services for human trafficking victims to be posted in lactation rooms at truck stops; defines "lactation room".
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S06213 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          6213
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      April 3, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  WEBB  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
 
        AN ACT to amend the general  business  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
          information  concerning  services  for human trafficking victims to be
          posted in lactation rooms at truck stops

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1. Subdivisions 1 and 3 of section 390-d of the general busi-
     2  ness law, as added by chapter 391 of the laws of 2022,  are  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    1.  The  operator of any truck stop shall make available in plain view
     5  and in a conspicuous place and manner in all sanitary facilities  avail-
     6  able  for  public  use  and  in any lactation rooms, informational cards
     7  and/or signs developed by:
     8    [(i)] (a) the office of temporary and disability assistance in consul-
     9  tation with the New York state interagency task force on human traffick-
    10  ing; or
    11    [(ii)] (b) the United States Department of Homeland Security.
    12    3. For purposes of this section, ["truck] the  following  terms  shall
    13  have the following meanings:
    14    (a)  "Truck  stop"  shall  mean  a  facility  that has the capacity to
    15  provide fuel or service, or both, to any  commercial  motor  vehicle  as
    16  defined by subdivision four of section five hundred one-a of the vehicle
    17  and  traffic  law  operating in commerce which is located within twenty-
    18  five hundred feet of a controlled-access highway as defined  by  section
    19  one  hundred  nine  of  the vehicle and traffic law which has been func-
    20  tionally classified by the department  of  transportation  as  principal
    21  arterial  -  interstate or principal arterial - other freeway/expressway
    22  on official functional classification maps approved by the federal high-
    23  way administration pursuant to part 470.105 of title 23 of the  code  of
    24  federal regulations, as amended from time to time.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04544-01-3

        S. 6213                             2
 
     1    (b)  "Lactation  room" shall mean a hygienic place, other than a rest-
     2  room, that is: (i) is shielded from view; (ii) is free  from  intrusion;
     3  (iii)  contains  a  chair,  a  working  surface, and, if the building is
     4  otherwise  supplied with electricity, an  electrical  outlet;  and  (iv)
     5  intended to be used for the primary purpose of breastfeeding or express-
     6  ing breast milk.
     7    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
     8  have become a law.
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