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

• File #: Int 0878-2018
• Version: A
• Name: Requiring lactation rooms in certain city spaces.
• 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 lactation rooms in certain city spaces
• Sponsors: Robert E. Cornegy, Jr., Laurie A. Cumbo, Karen Koslowitz, Keith Powers , Carlina Rivera , Diana I. Ayala, Costa G. Constantinides, Ben Kallos, Helen K. Rosenthal, Alicka Ampry-Samuel , Brad S. Lander, Adrienne E. Adams, Kalman Yeger , Jumaane D. Williams, Stephen T. Levin
• Indexes: Report Required

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	Amendment Proposed by Comm
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	Hearing Held by Committee
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. 878-A

By Council Members Cornegy, Cumbo, Koslowitz, Powers, Rivera, Ayala, Constantinides, Kallos, Rosenthal, Ampry-Samuel, Lander, Adams, Yeger, Williams and Levin

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
Body

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 added by local law number 94 for the year 2016, is amended to read as follows:
a. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, "lactation room" means a sanitary place [that is not], other than a restroom, that can be used to [breastfeed or] express breast milk [in private, and which includes an electrical outlet, a chair, and nearby access to running water] 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.
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; 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] affect such an individual's right to breastfeed in public pursuant to article 7 of the civil rights law.
c. Every city jail operated by the department of correction that accepts visitors and precinct operated by the police department shall, where practicable in a publicly-accessible and non-secure area, and provided that the functions of the department of correction or police department will not be materially affected, make at least o...