What's happening
This bill requires places of entertainment in New York to provide family accommodations such as high chairs, changing tables, nursing rooms, and priority parking.
Why it matters
Improves accessibility and comfort for families. By mandating high chairs, booster seats, changing tables, and nursing rooms, the bill aims to make outings less stressful and more inclusive for families with young children and infants.
Supports caregivers and working parents. The requirement for private nursing rooms with outlets and clean water directly assists breastfeeding parents, promoting public health and reducing barriers for working mothers or caregivers.
Promotes inclusivity and equal access. Priority lanes and designated parking for pregnant individuals, families with children, disabled, and elderly customers help ensure that vulnerable populations can more easily attend cultural, entertainment, and recreational events.
Enforces compliance through local authorities. Making these accommodations part of regular municipal building inspections could increase consistent enforcement, reducing the likelihood of noncompliance and ensuring family-friendly standards are upheld statewide.
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- Referred to health
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1136
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. SIMOTAS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to family accommodations in places of entertainment
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2509 to read as follows:
§ 2509. Family accommodations. 1. Unless it can be demonstrated that family accommodations are not readily achievable, as referenced in section two hundred ninety-six of the executive law, all places of entertainment, as defined in paragraph (i) of subdivision one of section 23.03 of the arts and cultural affairs law, shall provide the following family accommodations:
(a) high chairs and booster seats;
(b) changing tables in all public restrooms;
(c) child protection seats designed to mount on the wall of a restroom stall in all restrooms;
(d) a private room, pod or other location for the purpose of expression of breast milk or nursing, not including a restroom or toilet stall, with at least one electrical outlet, a clean water supply and a door with a functional lock;
(e) stroller parking;
(f) designated parking spaces for pregnant women or families with children in parking areas for employees or customers; and
(g) priority lanes for parents with children, disabled, elderly, or pregnant customers.
2. Municipal building inspectors or local code enforcement officials shall enforce the provisions of this section as part of their existing inspection process.
§ 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01528-01-9
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