The New York City Council - File #: Int 0879-2018

• File #: Int 0879-2018
• Version: A
• Name: Requiring certain employers to provide lactation rooms.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 5/9/2018
• In control: Committee on Women and Gender Equity
• On agenda: 5/9/2018
• Final action: 11/17/2018
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring certain employers to provide lactation rooms
• Sponsors: Laurie A. Cumbo, Robert E. Cornegy, Jr., Helen K. Rosenthal, Margaret S. Chin, Carlina Rivera , Deborah L. Rose, Diana I. Ayala, Alicka Ampry-Samuel , Karen Koslowitz, Fernando Cabrera , Costa G. Constantinides, Ben Kallos, Brad S. Lander, Adrienne E. Adams, Stephen T. Levin

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
11/19/2018	A	City Council	Returned Unsigned by Mayor
11/17/2018	A	Administration	City Charter Rule Adopted
10/17/2018	A	City Council	Sent to Mayor by Council
10/17/2018	A	City Council	Approved by Council	Pass
10/15/2018	*	Committee on Women and Gender Equity	Hearing Held by Committee
10/15/2018	*	Committee on Women and Gender Equity	Amended by Committee
10/15/2018	A	Committee on Women and Gender Equity	Approved by Committee	Pass
10/15/2018	*	Committee on Women and Gender Equity	Amendment Proposed by Comm
6/19/2018	*	Committee on Governmental Operations	Laid Over by Committee
6/19/2018	*	Committee on Governmental Operations	Hearing Held by Committee
6/19/2018	*	Committee on Women and Gender Equity	Laid Over by Committee
6/19/2018	*	Committee on Women and Gender Equity	Hearing Held by Committee
5/9/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
5/9/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 879-A

By Council Members Cumbo, Cornegy, Rosenthal, Chin, Rivera, Rose, Ayala, Ampry-Samuel, Koslowitz, Cabrera, Constantinides, Kallos, Lander, Adams and Levin

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring certain employers to provide lactation rooms
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:


Section 1. Section 8-102 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new definition of "lactation room" in alphabetical order to read as follows:
Lactation room. The term "lactation room" means a sanitary place, other than a restroom, that can be used to express breast milk shielded from view and free from intrusion and that includes at minimum an electrical outlet, a chair, a surface on which to place a breast pump and other personal items, and nearby access to running water.
? 2. Paragraphs (b) and (c) of subdivision 22 of section 8-107 of the administrative code of the city of New York are relettered, respectively, as paragraphs (d) and (e), and a new paragraph (b) is added to such subdivision to read as follows:
(b) Employer lactation accommodation.
(i) Except as provided in subparagraph (iii) of this paragraph, employers shall provide the following to accommodate an employee needing to express breast milk: (1) a lactation room in reasonable proximity to such employee's work area; and (2) a refrigerator suitable for breast milk storage in reasonable proximity to such employee's work area.
(ii) If a room designated by an employer to serve as a lactation room is also used for another purpose, the sole function of the room shall be as a lactation room while an employee is using the room to express breast milk. When an employee is using the room to express milk, the employer shall provide notice to other employees that the room is given preference for use as a lactation room.
(iii) Should the provision of a lactation ...