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Assembly Bill A3052

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to directing health inspectors to oversee compliance of restaurants and food establishments in N.Y. city

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2019-A3052 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A5817
2021-2022: A3133

2019-A3052 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to directing cities with a population of one million or more which employ health inspectors to oversee compliance of restaurants and food establishments; enacts the "Restaurant Owner Whistleblower Protection Act".

2019-A3052 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3052
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 28, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. KIM, VANEL, PHEFFER AMATO, NIOU, ORTIZ, ABBATE,
   McDONOUGH, JONES, COLTON, D'URSO -- read  once  and  referred  to  the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN  ACT  to direct cities with a population of one million or more which
   employ health inspectors to oversee the compliance of restaurants  and
   food establishments

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known as and may be cited as
 the "restaurant owner whistleblower protection act".
   § 2. a. All cities with a population of  one  million  or  more  which
 employ  health  inspectors  to oversee the compliance of restaurants and
 food establishments with local health  regulations  shall  establish  an
 independent  oversight body to receive anonymous complaints about health
 inspectors from restaurant owners or employees.
   b. Such independent oversight body shall  investigate  any  consistent
 reporting  about  health  inspectors from restaurant owners or employees
 and shall refer such cases to the city's investigative agency.
   c. Such independent oversight body shall provide:
   i. a hotline number and website to intake complaints provided  in  the
 following  languages:  Arabic; Bengali; Chinese; French; Haitian-Creole;
 Korean; Russian; Spanish and Urdu; and
   ii. an annual summary report to the restaurant  associations  and  the
 public  of complaints by restaurant owners, that includes how many total
 complaints, top type of complaints, and investigative findings.
   § 3. All cities with a population of one million or more which  employ
 health  inspectors  to  oversee  the  compliance of restaurants and food
 establishments with local health regulations shall establish  a  process
 by  which  restaurants and food establishments can refuse to participate
 in an inspection by paying a fee to reschedule the inspection visit,  up
 to three times. The fees to be imposed shall be:

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

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