STATE OF NEW YORK
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7813
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 25, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Health
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 Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "lactation
2 accommodation in airports act".
3 § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2505-b
4 to read as follows:
5 § 2505-b. Lactation accommodations in airports. 1. The terminal opera-
6 tor of a commercial service airport owned or operated by a county, city,
7 town, village, or state or local authority that has one million or more
8 enplanements a year shall provide a room or other location at each
9 airport passenger terminal behind the airport security screening area
10 for members of the public to express breast milk in private that meets
11 the following conditions:
12 (a) includes, at a minimum, a chair and an electrical outlet;
13 (b) is located outside of the confines of a public restroom; and
14 (c) upon completion of the construction of a new passenger terminal,
15 or the replacement, expansion, or renovation of an existing passenger
16 terminal, includes a sink.
17 2. The terminal operator of a commercial service airport owned or
18 operated by a county, city, town, village, or state or local authority
19 that has fewer than one million, but more than ten thousand enplanements
20 a year shall, upon completion of the construction of a new passenger
21 terminal, or the replacement, expansion, or renovation of an existing
22 passenger terminal, provide a room or other location at each airport
23 passenger terminal behind the airport security screening area for
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 members of the public to express breast milk in private that meets the
2 following conditions:
3 (a) includes, at a minimum, a chair, a sink, and an electrical outlet;
4 and
5 (b) is located outside of the confines of a public restroom.
6 3. As used in this section, "renovation of an existing passenger
7 terminal" means the repurposing of more than twenty-five percent of the
8 space in the passenger terminal.
9 § 3. Chapter 802 of the laws of 1947 relating to facilitating the
10 financing and effectuation of air terminals by the Port of New York
11 Authority is amended by adding a new section 4-b to read as follows:
12 § 4-b. Lactation accommodations in airports. 1. Any airport main-
13 tained or operated by the Port Authority that has one million or more
14 enplanements a year shall provide a room or other location at each
15 airport passenger terminal behind the terminal security screening area
16 for members of the public to express breast milk in private that meets
17 the following conditions:
18 (a) includes, at a minimum, a chair and an electrical outlet;
19 (b) is located outside of the confines of a public restroom; and
20 (c) upon completion of the construction of a new passenger terminal,
21 or the replacement, expansion, or renovation of an existing passenger
22 terminal, includes a sink.
23 2. Any airport maintained or operated by the Port Authority that has
24 fewer than one million but more than ten thousand enplanements a year
25 shall, upon completion of the construction of a new passenger terminal,
26 or the replacement, expansion, or renovation of an existing passenger
27 terminal, provide a room or other location at each airport passenger
28 terminal behind the terminal security screening area for members of the
29 public to express breast milk in private that meets the following condi-
30 tions:
31 (a) includes, at a minimum, a chair, a sink, and an electrical outlet;
32 and
33 (b) is located outside of the confines of a public restroom.
34 3. As used in this section, "renovation of an existing passenger
35 terminal" means the repurposing of more than twenty-five percent of the
36 space in the passenger terminal.
37 § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
38 ing the date on which it shall have become a law, provided, however,
39 section three of this act shall take effect upon the enactment into law
40 by the state of New Jersey of legislation having an identical effect
41 with this act but if the state of New Jersey shall have already enacted
42 such legislation, then this act shall take effect immediately. The
43 chairperson of the port authority shall notify the legislative bill
44 drafting commission upon the enactment into law of such legislation by
45 both such states in order that the commission may maintain an accurate
46 and timely effective data base of the official text of the laws of the
47 state of New York in furtherance of effecting the provisions of section
48 44 of the legislative law and section 70-b of the public officers law.
