STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4264 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 14, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring information concerning services for human trafficking victims to be posted in lactation rooms at truck stops The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 3 of section 390-d of the general busi- 2 ness law, as added by chapter 391 of the laws of 2022, are amended to 3 read as follows: 4 1. The operator of any truck stop shall make available in plain view 5 and in a conspicuous place and manner in all sanitary facilities avail- 6 able for public use and in any lactation rooms, informational cards 7 and/or signs developed by: 8 [(i)] (a) the office of temporary and disability assistance in consul- 9 tation with the New York state interagency task force on human traffick- 10 ing; or 11 [(ii)] (b) the United States Department of Homeland Security. 12 3. For purposes of this section, ["truck] the following terms shall 13 have the following meanings: 14 (a) "Truck stop" shall mean a facility that has the capacity to 15 provide fuel or service, or both, to any commercial motor vehicle as 16 defined by subdivision four of section five hundred one-a of the vehicle 17 and traffic law operating in commerce which is located within twenty- 18 five hundred feet of a controlled-access highway as defined by section 19 one hundred nine of the vehicle and traffic law which has been func- 20 tionally classified by the department of transportation as principal 21 arterial - interstate or principal arterial - other freeway/expressway 22 on official functional classification maps approved by the federal high- 23 way administration pursuant to part 470.105 of title 23 of the code of 24 federal regulations, as amended from time to time. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04544-01-3
A. 4264 2 1 (b) "Lactation room" shall mean a hygienic place, other than a rest- 2 room, that is: (i) is shielded from view; (ii) is free from intrusion; 3 (iii) contains a chair, a working surface, and, if the building is 4 otherwise supplied with electricity, an electrical outlet; and (iv) 5 intended to be used for the primary purpose of breastfeeding or express- 6 ing breast milk. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 8 have become a law.