Assembly Bill A2144

2021-2022 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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2021-A2144 (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
2019-2020: A1139
2023-2024: A1240

2021-A2144 (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.

2021-A2144 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2144
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, DINOWITZ, COOK, GLICK, ABINANTI --
   Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, ENGLEBRIGHT,  GOTTFRIED,  McDO-
   NOUGH, 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.
   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.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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