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Assembly Bill A1045

2015-2016 Legislative Session

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

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2015-A1045 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง1346 & 1348, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A6074
2013-2014: A713

2015-A1045 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2015-A1045 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  1045

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             January 8, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, ROBERTS, JAFFEE, HOOPER -- Multi-Spon-
  sored by -- M. of A.  ARROYO, AUBRY, COOK, GOTTFRIED, MILLER, PERRY --
  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.
                                                           LBD04104-01-5

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