Assembly Actions -
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Jan 22, 2021 |
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Assembly Bill A3133
2021-2022 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
KIM
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
Clyde Vanel
Stacey Pheffer Amato
Yuh-Line Niou
Peter Abbate
2021-A3133 (ACTIVE) - Details
2021-A3133 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3133 2021-2022 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 22, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. KIM, VANEL, PHEFFER AMATO, NIOU, ABBATE, McDO- NOUGH, JONES, COLTON -- 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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