Requires that all single occupancy bathrooms in state owned or operated buildings be designated as gender neutral; requires installation of a single occupancy bathroom in the event a building does not have such bathroom on the effective date of this act.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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11377
IN ASSEMBLY
October 19, 2018
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Fernandez)
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the public buildings law, in relation to requiring that
all single occupancy bathrooms in state owned or operated buildings be
designated as gender neutral
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public buildings law is amended by adding a new section
2 145 to read as follows:
3 § 145. Gender neutral single occupancy bathrooms. 1. The commissioner
4 of general services shall have the power and it shall be his or her duty
5 to ensure that all single occupancy bathrooms in state owned or operated
6 buildings be designated as gender neutral single occupancy bathrooms.
7 For purposes of this section: "state owned or operated buildings" shall
8 mean any state owned property used for official state business, and
9 shall include any building or office space, not owned by the state, but
10 which is primarily used for official state business; and "single occu-
11 pancy" shall mean intended for use by no more than one occupant at a
12 time or for family or assisted use.
13 2. In the event that a state owned or operated building does not have
14 a single occupancy bathroom on the effective date of this section, the
15 commissioner of general services shall require such building to install
16 a single occupancy bathroom. Such installation of a single occupancy
17 bathroom shall be completed within one year of the effective date of
18 this section. Single occupancy bathrooms installed pursuant to this
19 section shall be designated as gender neutral.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
21 have become a law; provided, however, that the addition, amendment
22 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
23 of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
24 completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16564-01-8
