STATE OF NEW YORK
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7211
IN SENATE
January 10, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. FELDER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
AN ACT the amend the general business law, in relation to denial of
access to an employee toilet facility
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
2 494 to read as follows:
3 § 494. Denial of access. 1. The consumer protection division, as
4 established in section ninety-four-a of the executive law, shall have
5 the power and duty:
6 (a) to receive complaints from any individual that has been denied
7 access to an employee toilet facility in violation of this article;
8 (b) to attempt to mediate such complaints where appropriate; and
9 (c) to refer such complaints to the appropriate unit of the department
10 or the federal, state or other agency authorized by law for appropriate
11 action on such complaints.
12 2. Any county, city or town office of consumer protection shall have
13 the power and duty:
14 (a) to receive complaints from any individual that has been denied
15 access to an employee toilet facility in violation of this article;
16 (b) to attempt to mediate such complaints where appropriate; and
17 (c) to refer such complaints to the appropriate unit of the department
18 or the federal, state or other agency authorized by law for appropriate
19 action on such complaints.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14074-02-9
