What's happening
This bill requires hotels, motels, and inns in New York to offer condoms for sale to their registered guests.
Why it matters
Improves public health access. By requiring hotels, motels, and inns to offer condoms for sale, the bill increases immediate access to protection against sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), especially for travelers who may not have easy access to pharmacies.
Reduces stigma and inconvenience. Making condoms available at the registration office helps normalize sexual health needs and reduces potential embarrassment or barriers for guests who might otherwise go without protection.
Promotes community health responsibility. The mandate positions hospitality businesses as active participants in public health efforts, acknowledging their role in preventing the spread of STDs.
Could set a statewide standard. If enacted, this law would establish a baseline expectation for guest services in New York’s hospitality industry, possibly influencing similar policy changes elsewhere.
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- Referred to economic development
- Referred to economic development
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Hotels Must Sell Condoms
In Senate Committee · Consumer Protection · Sponsor Velmanette Montgomery
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STATE OF NEW YORK
4371
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring hotels, motels and innkeepers to offer condoms for sale to registered guests
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 204-b to read as follows:
§ 204-b. Sale of condoms. Every keeper of a hotel or motel or inn shall, in the registration office, sell or offer for sale to registered guests of such hotel or motel or inn condoms or similar prophylactic devices designed to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
§ 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.
LBD03438-01-9
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