Senate Bill S7206

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires hotels and motels to notify employees of the presence of bedbugs on the premises and requires development of training on eradication of bedbugs

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Date of Action	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
May 02, 2012	referred to health

2011-S7206 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A9515
Current Committee:: Senate Health
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§1347 & 1349, ren §1348 to be §1349, add §1348, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2013-2014: A995
2015-2016: A609
2017-2018: A3211
2019-2020: A1139
2021-2022: A2144
2023-2024: A1240
2025-2026: A3164

2011-S7206 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires hotels and motels to notify employees of the presence of bedbugs on the premises; requires the development and administration of training on methods and procedures for the eradication of bedbugs upon hiring and each year thereafter.

2011-S7206 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                BILL NUMBER:S7206

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring hotels
and motels to notify employees of the
presence of bedbugs on the premises and
requires the development and administration of
training on methods
and procedures for the eradication of
bedbugs

PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
The purpose of this legislation is to
create a bulwark against the spread of bedbugs beyond the confines of
hotels and motels, by their respective employees.

SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
The bill will amend subdivision 1 of
section 1347 of the public health law to authorize the commissioner
of the department of health, along with departments and boards, to
enforce this title. Section 1348 is amended to require hotels to
notify employees of bedbug presence in a prompt manner. Section 1348
is also amended to require hotels to develop and administer bedbug
trainings to employees. This section also requires the hotel to
remove rooms from service if bedbugs are discovered until a pest

control management company representative has inspected the area.

Section 4 establishes the effective date.

JUSTIFICATION:
Bedbugs have quickly become a prevalent nuisance and an
economic risk, the need to curb their spread is critically important.
This bill seeks to do exactly that by mandating that employees who
clean and/or otherwise service hotel and motel rooms be made aware
of the presence of bedbugs so that they can take adequate precautions
and so limit their spread beyond the confines of those affected
buildings.

PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Undetermined.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
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 to
implement this act on its effective date, on or before such date.

2011-S7206 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  7206

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               May 2, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  requiring  hotels
  and motels to notify employees of the presence of bedbugs on the prem-
  ises  and  requires  the development and administration of training on
  methods and procedures for the eradication of bedbugs

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 1347 of the public health law is
amended to read as follows:
  1. All departments and  boards  of  health  and  the  commissioner  or
commissioners  thereof shall have the power to enforce the provisions of
sections thirteen hundred forty-five to thirteen  hundred  [forty-seven]
FORTY-EIGHT, inclusive, of this [chapter] TITLE.
  S  2. Section 1348 of the public health law is renumbered section 1349
and amended to read as follows:
  S 1349. Hotel sanitation; application of article.   The provisions  of
sections  thirteen  hundred forty-five to thirteen hundred forty-seven[,
inclusive,] of this [chapter] TITLE, shall not apply to cities having  a
population of one million inhabitants or over.
  S  3. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 1348 to
read as follows:
  S 1348. HOTEL SANITATION; BEDBUG NOTIFICATION AND TRAINING.  1. HOTELS
AND MOTELS SHALL NOTIFY EMPLOYEES OF THE  PRESENCE  OF  BEDBUGS  ON  THE
PREMISES AND SHALL SPECIFY WHICH ROOMS ARE INFESTED.
  2.  NOTIFICATION  SHALL  BE  MADE  PROMPTLY FOLLOWING THE DISCOVERY OF
BEDBUGS ON THE PREMISES.
  3. IN CONCERT WITH THE DEPARTMENT, HOTELS AND MOTELS SHALL DEVELOP AND
ADMINISTER BEDBUG TRAINING THAT SHALL BE PROVIDED TO EMPLOYEES  WHO  MAY
BE EXPOSED TO BEDBUGS AS A PART OF THEIR DAILY ACTIVITIES.
  4.  TRAINING  SHALL  BE  ADMINISTERED  WITHIN  A REASONABLE TIME AFTER
HIRING AND ONCE AGAIN EACH YEAR THEREAFTER.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14377-05-2

S. 7206                             2

  5.  TRAINING  SHALL  INCLUDE  BEDBUG  IDENTIFICATION,  PROCEDURES  FOR
REPORTING  INFESTATIONS TO PEST MANAGEMENT AND TREATING INFESTATIONS, AS
APPROPRIATE.
  6.  UPON  DISCOVERY OF BEDBUGS, THE HOTEL OR MOTEL SHALL TAKE THE ROOM
OR AREA OUT OF SERVICE, BUT NO ITEMS  SHALL  BE  REMOVED  UNTIL  A  PEST
CONTROL MANAGEMENT COMPANY HAS INSPECTED THE AREA.
  7. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION:
  A.  "HOTEL  AND  MOTEL"  SHALL  MEAN  ESTABLISHMENTS  DISTINGUISHED AS
HOTELS, MOTELS, BUNGALOW COLONIES, OR ANY OTHER ESTABLISHMENT COMPARABLE
OR EQUIVALENT TO ANY OF THOSE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED. THE TERM  SHALL  NOT
INCLUDE  THOSE  PLACES  OR  FACILITIES NOT HAVING THE GENERAL CHARACTER-
ISTICS OF A MOTEL OR HOTEL AS THAT TERM IS GENERALLY UNDERSTOOD AND  THE
COMMISSIONER SHALL HAVE THE POWER TO EXEMPT FROM THIS SECTION A PLACE OR
FACILITY  THAT IS NOT WITHIN THE INTENT OF THIS DEFINITION OF A MOTEL OR
HOTEL.
  B.  "EMPLOYEE" SHALL MEAN ANY PERSON EMPLOYED FOR  HIRE  THAT  MAY  BE
EXPOSED TO BEDBUGS AS A PART OF THEIR DAILY ROUTINE. SUB-CONTRACTORS AND
INDEPENDENT  CONTRACTORS  WHO  WORK  TWENTY  HOURS  OR MORE PER WEEK ARE
DEEMED "EMPLOYEES" FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION.
  S 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
it shall have become a law; provided, effective immediately, the commis-
sioner of health is authorized to promulgate any and all rules and regu-
lations and take any other measures necessary to implement this  act  on
its effective date, on or before such date.

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health Committee

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