STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 805 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN, RAGA, LEVENBERG, BURDICK, SHIMSKY, REYES, SIMONE, TAPIA, GONZALEZ-ROJAS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the public buildings law, in relation to requiring gender neutral bathrooms in state-owned buildings The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The section heading of section 145 of the public buildings 2 law, as amended by chapter 14 of the laws of 2020, is amended, subdivi- 3 sion 1 is amended by adding a new paragraph (e), and two new subdivi- 4 sions 3 and 4 are added to read as follows: 5 Gender neutral [single-occupancy] bathrooms. 6 (e) "multiple-occupancy bathroom" means a room or suite of rooms 7 containing at least one sink and at least two sanitary fixtures, such as 8 toilets or urinals, intended for simultaneous use by two or more occu- 9 pants. 10 3. If no single-occupancy bathroom can be designated as gender neutral 11 in a state-owned building, a multiple-occupancy bathroom shall be desig- 12 nated as gender neutral instead. 13 4. Adequate notice shall be provided in every state-owned and state- 14 leased building so that all persons can reasonably find bathrooms that 15 have been designated as gender neutral. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 17 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00588-02-5