STATE OF NEW YORK
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1817--C
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 11, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. KENNEDY, COMRIE, HOYLMAN, KAMINSKY, PARKER, PERALTA,
RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be
committed to the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with
Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law and chapter 802 of the laws of
1947 relating to facilitating the financing and effectuation of air
terminals by the Port of New York Authority, in relation to requiring
certain lactation accommodations in airports
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "lactation
2 accommodation in airports act".
3 § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2505-b
4 to read as follows:
5 § 2505-b. Lactation accommodations in airports. 1. The terminal opera-
6 tor of a commercial service airport owned or operated by a county, city,
7 town, village, or state or local authority that has one million or more
8 enplanements a year shall provide a room or other location at each
9 airport passenger terminal behind the airport security screening area
10 for members of the public to express breast milk in private that meets
11 the following conditions:
12 (a) includes, at a minimum, a chair and an electrical outlet;
13 (b) is located outside of the confines of a public restroom; and
14 (c) upon completion of the construction of a new passenger terminal,
15 or the replacement, expansion, or renovation of an existing passenger
16 terminal, includes a sink.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 2. The terminal operator of a commercial service airport owned or
2 operated by a county, city, town, village, or state or local authority
3 that has fewer than one million, but more than ten thousand enplanements
4 a year shall, upon completion of the construction of a new passenger
5 terminal, or the replacement, expansion, or renovation of an existing
6 passenger terminal, provide a room or other location at each airport
7 passenger terminal behind the airport security screening area for
8 members of the public to express breast milk in private that meets the
9 following conditions:
10 (a) includes, at a minimum, a chair, a sink, and an electrical outlet;
11 and
12 (b) is located outside of the confines of a public restroom.
13 3. As used in this section, "renovation of an existing passenger
14 terminal" means the repurposing of more than twenty-five percent of the
15 space in the passenger terminal.
16 § 3. Chapter 802 of the laws of 1947 relating to facilitating the
17 financing and effectuation of air terminals by the Port of New York
18 Authority is amended by adding a new section 4-b to read as follows:
19 § 4-b. Lactation accommodations in airports. 1. Any airport main-
20 tained or operated by the Port Authority that has one million or more
21 enplanements a year shall provide a room or other location at each
22 airport passenger terminal behind the terminal security screening area
23 for members of the public to express breast milk in private that meets
24 the following conditions:
25 (a) includes, at a minimum, a chair and an electrical outlet;
26 (b) is located outside of the confines of a public restroom; and
27 (c) upon completion of the construction of a new passenger terminal,
28 or the replacement, expansion, or renovation of an existing passenger
29 terminal, includes a sink.
30 2. Any airport maintained or operated by the Port Authority that has
31 fewer than one million but more than ten thousand enplanements a year
32 shall, upon completion of the construction of a new passenger terminal,
33 or the replacement, expansion, or renovation of an existing passenger
34 terminal, provide a room or other location at each airport passenger
35 terminal behind the terminal security screening area for members of the
36 public to express breast milk in private that meets the following condi-
37 tions:
38 (a) includes, at a minimum, a chair, a sink, and an electrical outlet;
39 and
40 (b) is located outside of the confines of a public restroom.
41 3. As used in this section, "renovation of an existing passenger
42 terminal" means the repurposing of more than twenty-five percent of the
43 space in the passenger terminal.
44 § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
45 ing the date on which it shall have become a law, provided, however,
46 section three of this act shall take effect upon the enactment into law
47 by the state of New Jersey of legislation having an identical effect
48 with this act but if the state of New Jersey shall have already enacted
49 such legislation, then this act shall take effect immediately. The
50 chairperson of the port authority shall notify the legislative bill
51 drafting commission upon the enactment into law of such legislation by
52 both such states in order that the commission may maintain an accurate
53 and timely effective data base of the official text of the laws of the
54 state of New York in furtherance of effecting the provisions of section
55 44 of the legislative law and section 70-b of the public officers law.