Source: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/s7327
Timestamp: 2019-08-20 03:07:40
Document Index: 371501436

Matched Legal Cases: ['Art 19', 'Art 28', '§491', '§ 2', '§  491', '§ 492', '§ 493']

Apr 18, 2018 signed chap.42
Feb 13, 2018 returned to senate
substituted for a8989
Jan 08, 2018 ordered to third reading cal.55
Rpld Art 19, Pub Health L (as proposed in S. 3295 and A. 1982); add Art 28-F §§491 - 493, Gen Bus L
Enacts the Crohn's and colitis fairness act.
BILL NUMBER: S7327
to enacting the Crohn's and colitis fairness act; and to repeal article
19 of the public health law relating thereto
Amends Chapter 471 of 2017 in order to move the provisions of the
Crohn's and Colitis Fairness Act from Public Health Law to the General
The bill repeals Article 19 of the Public Health Law and adds said
provision as a new Article 28F to the General Business Law.
Given the Crohn's and Colitis Fairness Act directs businesses to make
employee restrooms available to the public, this legislation removes its
provisions from the Public Health Law and instead codifies the Act in
the General Business Law. The Attorney General is authorized to enforce
provisions of the General Business Law. As the Governor noted in his
approval message for Chapter 471 of 2017, "individuals subject to the
protections of this law may file a complaint by contacting the consumer
protection bureau of their local or state government, including those
located within the New York State Department of State or the New York
Amends Chapter 471 of the Laws of 2017.
This act shall take effect immediately provided section two shall take
effect on the same date and in the same manner as a chapter of the laws
of 2017, amending the public health law relating to enacting the Crohn's
and colitis fairness act, as proposed in legislative bills numbers
S.3295 and A.1982, takes effect.
Crohn's  and  colitis  fairness  act;  and to repeal article 19 of the
Section 1.  Article 19 of the public health law, as added by a chapter
of the laws of 2017, amending the public health law relating to enacting
the  Crohn's  and colitis fairness act, as proposed in legislative bills
numbers S.3295 and A.1982, is REPEALED.
§ 2. The general business law is amended by adding a new article  28-F
SECTION 491. DEFINITION.
492. ACCESS TO RESTROOM FACILITIES.
493. REQUIRED CHANGES.
§  491.  DEFINITION. AS USED IN THIS ARTICLE, "ELIGIBLE MEDICAL CONDI-
TION" MEANS CROHN'S DISEASE, ULCERATIVE COLITIS, ANY OTHER  INFLAMMATORY
BOWEL  DISEASE,  IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME OR ANY OTHER MEDICAL CONDITION
§ 492. ACCESS TO RESTROOM FACILITIES. A PLACE OF BUSINESS OPEN TO  THE
LBD01074-02-8
§ 493. REQUIRED CHANGES. NOTHING IN SECTION FOUR HUNDRED NINETY-TWO OF
THE  GENERAL  PUBLIC FOR THE SALE OF GOODS OR SERVICES THAT HAS A TOILET
FACILITY FOR ITS EMPLOYEES TO MAKE ANY PHYSICAL CHANGES TO  AN  EMPLOYEE
manner as a chapter of the laws of 2017, amending the public health  law
relating  to  enacting the Crohn's and colitis fairness act, as proposed
in legislative bills numbers S.3295 and A.1982, takes effect.