Assembly Bill A1139

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring 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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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A1139 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly 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:
2011-2012: A9515
2013-2014: A995
2015-2016: A609
2017-2018: A3211
2021-2022: A2144
2023-2024: A1240

2019-A1139 (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.

2019-A1139 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1139
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, DINOWITZ, COOK, GLICK, ABINANTI --
   Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, ARROYO, CRESPO, CROUCH,  ENGLE-
   BRIGHT,  GOTTFRIED,  McDONOUGH, PERRY -- read once and referred 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.
   §  2. Section 1348 of the public health law is renumbered section 1349
 and amended to read as follows:
   § 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.
   §  3. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 1348 to
 read as follows:
   § 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.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02593-01-9

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