STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________
6026
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
August 7, 2015
___________
Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to mandating the
provision of 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. Private place for nursing mothers. 1. On or before January
6 first, two thousand seventeen, the airport manager of an airport oper-
7 ated by a city, county, city and county, or airport district that
8 conducts commercial operations and that has more than one million
9 enplanements a year shall provide a room or other location at each
10 airport terminal behind the airport security screening area for members
11 of the public to express breast milk in private that meets both of the
12 following conditions:
13 (a) includes, at a minimum, a chair and an electrical outlet; and
14 (b) is located outside of the confines of a public restroom.
15 2. An airport that conducts commercial operations with fewer than one
16 million enplanements a year shall comply with the provisions of subdivi-
17 sions one and three of this section upon new terminal construction or
18 the replacement, expansion, or renovation of an existing terminal.
19 3. Upon construction of a new terminal or the replacement, expansion,
20 or renovation of an existing terminal, an airport shall provide a sink
21 in any room or other location designated to comply with the provisions
22 of this section.
23 4. As used in this section, "renovation of an existing terminal" means
24 the repurposing of more than twenty-five percent of the space in the
25 terminal.
26 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
27 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11403-01-5
