Relates to family accommodations, if readily achievable, in places of entertainment including high chairs, changing tables, child protection seats, breastfeeding rooms or pods and stroller parking.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9775
IN ASSEMBLY
February 7, 2018
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Introduced by M. of A. SIMOTAS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to family accommo-
dations in places of entertainment
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
2 2509 to read as follows:
3 § 2509. Family accommodations. Unless it can be demonstrated that
4 family accommodations are not readily achievable, as referenced in
5 section two hundred ninety-six of the executive law, all places of
6 entertainment, as defined in paragraph (i) of subdivision one of section
7 23.03 of the arts and cultural affairs law, shall provide the following
8 family accommodations:
9 1. high chairs and booster seats;
10 2. changing tables in all public restrooms;
11 3. child protection seats designed to mount on the wall of a restroom
12 stall in all restrooms;
13 4. a private room, pod or other location for the purpose of expression
14 of breast milk or nursing, not including a restroom or toilet stall,
15 with at least one electrical outlet, a clean water supply and a door
16 with a functional lock; and
17 5. stroller parking.
18 § 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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