Adjusts the tax rate on gaming revenues in region one, and requires gaming facilities to maintain the number of full-time equivalent employees as they employed in the year two thousand nineteen.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A8416 Revised 2/24/20
SPONSOR: Pretlow PURPOSE:
This bill requires the state health department to.offer an identifica-
tion card for people with gastrointestinal diseases defined in the
Crohn's and Colitis Fairness Act. This ID card would verify their condi-
tion and their right to access an employee-only toilet facility.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1: The public health law is amended by adding a new article 19,
Crohn's and Colitis Identification Card, authorizing the Commissioner of
Health to create an identification card for people with gastrointestinal
conditions defined in the Crohn's and Colitis Fairness Act.
Section 2: This section sets the effective date and provides that any
rules or regulations necessary to implement this legislation may be
completed prior to the effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
Chapter 42 of the laws of 2018 enacted the Crohn's and Colitis Fairness
Act. This landmark bill created a compassionate system for those who
suffer from gastrointestinal diseases like ulcerative colitis and
Crohn's disease.
The Crohn's and Colitis Fairness Act provides those suffering from
certain gastrointestinal diseases, access to an employee-only toilet
facility in a place of business that is already open to the public, when
there are at least two employees working at the time of the request, and
using that facility would not create a health, safety, or security risk.
While this bill provides a great service to those suffering from
gastrointestinal diseases by permitting them to use employee-only toilet
facilities, businesses have no way of identifying who may have a permit-
ted gastrointestinal disease and who does not.
This legislation would require the state health department to offer an
identification card for people with gastrointestinal diseases outlined
in the Crohn's and Colitis Fairness Act. This optional identification
card would allow an individual to easily communicate their condition to
an employee of a business and outline that employee's responsibility
under the Crohn's and Colitis Fairness Act.
This card would allow those suffering from gastrointestinal diseases to
simply show an identification card which verifies they have a condition
outlined in the Crohn's and Colitis Fairness Act. This would prevent a
situation where someone with a gastrointestinal condition would be
forced to argue with a store employee regarding their rights under the
Crohn's and Colitis Fairness Act or if an individual even has a qualify-
ing condition. However, such an identification card is not required to
gain access to an employee restroom facility at a place of business in
accordance with article 28-F of the General Business law.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
This is a new bill.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
To be determined.
EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8416
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 16, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Ways and Means
AN ACT to amend the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, in
relation to adjusting the tax on gaming revenues in region one
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 1351 of the
2 racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding law, as added by chapter 174
3 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
4 (b) in region one, [thirty-nine] thirty-seven percent of gross gaming
5 revenue from slot machines provided, however, such gaming facility, as
6 defined in section thirteen hundred one of this article, has maintained
7 the number of full-time equivalent employees as they employed in the
8 year two thousand nineteen, and ten percent of gross gaming revenue from
9 all other sources.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
11 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13416-01-9
