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Assembly Bill A523A

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring gender neutral bathrooms in state-owned buildings

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2023-A523 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7844
Law Section:
Public Buildings Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §145, Pub Bldg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A10652
2025-2026: A805, S2665

2023-A523 - Summary

Relates to requiring gender neutral bathrooms in state-owned buildings; requires each state agency to ensure, to the extent practicable, that all state-owned and state-leased buildings under its jurisdiction have at least one multiple-occupancy bathroom in such building designated as gender neutral.

2023-A523 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    523
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee 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.
                                                            LBD02065-01-3

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2023-A523A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7844
Law Section:
Public Buildings Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §145, Pub Bldg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A10652
2025-2026: A805, S2665

2023-A523A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to requiring gender neutral bathrooms in state-owned buildings; requires each state agency to ensure, to the extent practicable, that all state-owned and state-leased buildings under its jurisdiction have at least one multiple-occupancy bathroom in such building designated as gender neutral.

2023-A523A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  523--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. EPSTEIN, RAGA, LEVENBERG, BURDICK -- read once
   and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations --  recommit-
   ted  to  the  Committee  on Governmental Operations in accordance with
   Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 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 a new subdivision 3
 is 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.
   3. EACH STATE AGENCY SHALL ENSURE, TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE, THAT ALL
 STATE-OWNED AND STATE-LEASED BUILDINGS UNDER ITS  JURISDICTION  HAVE  AT
 LEAST  ONE  MULTIPLE-OCCUPANCY  BATHROOM  IN SUCH BUILDING DESIGNATED AS
 GENDER NEUTRAL.
   § 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.
                                                            LBD02065-02-4

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