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Assembly Bill A6074

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires hotels to protect all mattresses and box springs with bedbug-impermeable covers

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2011-A6074 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง1346 & 1348, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A713
2015-2016: A1045

2011-A6074 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires hotels to protect all mattresses and box springs with bedbug-impermeable covers.

2011-A6074 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6074

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              March 4, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
  Committee on Health

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  requiring  hotels
  to  protect  all  mattresses  and  box springs with bedbug-impermeable
  covers

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Subdivision 4 of section 1346 of the public health law, as
added by chapter 546 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
  4. EVERY HOTEL SHALL PROTECT  ALL  MATTRESSES  AND  BOX  SPRINGS  WITH
BEDBUG-IMPERMEABLE COVERS.
  5.  Nothing  in  this  section shall prevent local municipalities from
enacting stricter laws, rules or regulations.
  S 2. Section 1348 of the public health  law  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  S  1348.  Hotel sanitation; application of article.  The provisions of
sections thirteen hundred forty-five [to], thirteen hundred forty-seven,
[inclusive,] AND SUBDIVISIONS ONE, TWO, THREE AND FIVE OF SECTION  THIR-
TEEN  HUNDRED  FORTY-SIX  of  this  [chapter]  TITLE, shall not apply to
cities having a population of one million inhabitants or over.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the  commissioner  of
health is authorized to promulgate any and all rules and regulations and
take any other measures necessary to implement this act on its effective
date,  on  or  before  such  date,  including but not limited to issuing
recommendations on the use of bedbug-impermeable mattress and box spring
covers.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09210-04-1

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