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This bill requires major New York airports to provide private lactation rooms with specific amenities for breastfeeding travelers.
Why it matters
Improves privacy and dignity for breastfeeding travelers. By mandating private lactation rooms outside of restrooms and behind security, the bill ensures nursing parents have a clean, comfortable, and secure space, responding to widespread concerns about breastfeeding in public or unsanitary conditions.
Includes specific amenities to support pumping and feeding needs. Requirements for chairs, electrical outlets, and—where possible—sinks address practical needs for breast milk expression, storage, and equipment cleaning, making travel more feasible for parents of infants.
Incorporates future airport development. The law ties certain requirements (like sinks) to new construction or major renovations, encouraging airports to integrate lactation-friendly design into long-term planning without imposing immediate, costly retrofits.
Expands coverage to nearly all significant New York airports. By including both Port Authority and local airports with over 10,000 enplanements, the bill ensures that the benefits reach a large majority of air travelers, potentially setting a precedent for other public facilities and states.
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Require Airport Lactation Rooms
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History
- Referred to rules
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Amended on third reading 7032c
- Restored to third reading
- Amended by restoring to previous print 7032a
- Amended on third reading (t) 7032b
- Ordered to third reading cal.495
- Returned to assembly
- Died in senate
- Referred to rules
- Delivered to senate
Show 8 earlier actions
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.120
- Rules report cal.120
- Reported
- Reported referred to rules
- Print number 7032a
- Amend (t) and recommit to health
- Referred to health
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Require Airport Lactation Rooms
In Senate Committee · Finance · Sponsor Timothy M. Kennedy
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STATE OF NEW YORK
7032--C Cal. No. 495
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 29, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading -- again amended on third reading, ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the public health law and chapter 802 of the laws of
1947 relating to facilitating the financing and effectuation of air terminals by the Port of New York Authority, in relation to requiring certain lactation accommodations in airports
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "lactation accommodation in airports act".
§ 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2505-b to read as follows:
§ 2505-b. Lactation accommodations in airports. 1. The terminal operator of a commercial service airport owned or operated by a county, city, town, village, or state or local authority that has one million or more enplanements a year shall provide a room or other location at each airport passenger terminal behind the airport security screening area for members of the public to express breast milk in private that meets the following conditions:
(a) includes, at a minimum, a chair and an electrical outlet;
(b) is located outside of the confines of a public restroom; and
(c) upon completion of the construction of a new passenger terminal, or the replacement, expansion, or renovation of an existing passenger terminal, includes a sink.
2. The terminal operator of a commercial service airport owned or operated by a county, city, town, village, or state or local authority that has fewer than one million, but more than ten thousand enplanements
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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a year shall, upon completion of the construction of a new passenger terminal, or the replacement, expansion, or renovation of an existing passenger terminal, provide a room or other location at each airport passenger terminal behind the airport security screening area for members of the public to express breast milk in private that meets the following conditions:
(a) includes, at a minimum, a chair, a sink, and an electrical outlet; and
(b) is located outside of the confines of a public restroom.
3. As used in this section, "renovation of an existing passenger terminal" means the repurposing of more than twenty-five percent of the space in the passenger terminal.
§ 3. Chapter 802 of the laws of 1947 relating to facilitating the financing and effectuation of air terminals by the Port of New York Authority is amended by adding a new section 4-b to read as follows:
§ 4-b. Lactation accommodations in airports. 1. Any airport maintained or operated by the Port Authority that has one million or more enplanements a year shall provide a room or other location at each airport passenger terminal behind the terminal security screening area for members of the public to express breast milk in private that meets the following conditions:
(a) includes, at a minimum, a chair and an electrical outlet;
(b) is located outside of the confines of a public restroom; and
(c) upon completion of the construction of a new passenger terminal, or the replacement, expansion, or renovation of an existing passenger terminal, includes a sink.
2. Any airport maintained or operated by the Port Authority that has fewer than one million but more than ten thousand enplanements a year shall, upon completion of the construction of a new passenger terminal, or the replacement, expansion, or renovation of an existing passenger terminal, provide a room or other location at each airport passenger terminal behind the terminal security screening area for members of the public to express breast milk in private that meets the following conditions:
(a) includes, at a minimum, a chair, a sink, and an electrical outlet; and
(b) is located outside of the confines of a public restroom.
3. As used in this section, "renovation of an existing passenger terminal" means the repurposing of more than twenty-five percent of the space in the passenger terminal.
§ 4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law, provided, however, section three of this act shall take effect upon the enactment into law by the state of New Jersey of legislation having an identical effect with this act but if the state of New Jersey shall have already enacted such legislation, then this act shall take effect immediately. The chairperson of the port authority shall notify the legislative bill drafting commission upon the enactment into law of such legislation by both such states in order that the commission may maintain an accurate and timely effective data base of the official text of the laws of the state of New York in furtherance of effecting the provisions of section 44 of the legislative law and section 70-b of the public officers law.
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