S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
August 12, 2022
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Epstein) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the public buildings law, in relation to requiring
gender neutral bathrooms in state-owned buildings
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The section heading of section 145 of the public buildings
law, as amended by chapter 14 of the laws of 2020, is amended, subdivi-
sion 1 is amended by adding a new paragraph (e), and two new subdivi-
sions 1-a and 3 are added to read as follows:
Gender neutral [single-occupancy] bathrooms.
(E) "MULTIPLE-OCCUPANCY BATHROOM" MEANS A ROOM OR SUITE OF ROOMS
CONTAINING AT LEAST ONE SINK AND AT LEAST TWO SANITARY FIXTURES, SUCH AS
TOILETS OR URINALS, INTENDED FOR SIMULTANEOUS USE BY TWO OR MORE OCCU-
PANTS.
1-A. ALL STATE-OWNED BUILDINGS AND, WHERE PRACTICABLE, STATE-LEASED
BUILDINGS SHALL INCLUDE GENDER NEUTRAL BATHROOMS.
3. WHEN A STATE AGENCY IS UNABLE TO COMPLY WITH SUBDIVISION TWO OF
THIS SECTION, SUCH STATE AGENCY SHALL ENSURE THAT THERE IS AT LEAST ONE
GENDER NEUTRAL MULTIPLE-OCCUPANCY BATHROOM IN THE STATE-OWNED BUILDINGS
UNDER ITS JURISDICTION AND, WHERE PRACTICABLE, IN THE STATE-LEASED
BUILDINGS UNDER ITS JURISDICTION.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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