The New York City Council - File #: Int 0878-2018

• File #: Int 0878-2018
• Version: *
• Name: Requiring lactation rooms in certain city spaces.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Laid Over in Committee
• File created: 5/9/2018
• In control: Committee on Women
• On agenda: 5/9/2018
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring lactation rooms in certain city spaces
• Sponsors: Robert E. Cornegy, Jr., Laurie A. Cumbo, Karen Koslowitz, Keith Powers , Carlina Rivera , Diana Ayala , Costa G. Constantinides

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
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	Laid Over by Committee
6/19/2018	*	Committee on Women	Hearing Held by Committee
5/9/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
5/9/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 878

By Council Members Cornegy, Cumbo, Koslowitz, Powers, Rivera, Ayala and Constantinides

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring lactation rooms in certain city spaces

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Section 17-199.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law 94 for the year 2016, is amended to read as follows:

§ 17-199.1 Lactation rooms. a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, “lactation room” means a sanitary place that is not a restroom that can be used to breastfeed or express milk in private, and which includes an electrical outlet, a chair, and nearby access to running water. “School building” means any facility that is leased by the department of education or over which the department of education has care, custody and control, in which there is a public school, including but not limited to, a charter school.

b. Every job center, SNAP center, or medical assistance program center of the department of social services/human resources administration; city-owned borough office of the administration for children’s services and the Nicholas Scoppetta children’s center; city jail operated by the department of correction that accepts visitors; city jail operated by the department of correction that houses females; school building; precinct operated by the police department of the city of New York; and health center operated or maintained by the department shall, where practicable, make at least one lactation room available upon request to an individual utilizing on-site services. The presence of such a lactation room shall not abrogate such an individual’s right to breastfeed in public pursuant to article 7 of the civil rights law.

§ 2.                     This local law takes effect 90 days after it becomes law.

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