Assembly Bill A995

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Requires hotels and motels to notify employees of the presence of bedbugs on the premises and requires development of training on eradication of bedbugs

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A995 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1347 & 1349, ren §1348 to be §1349, add §1348, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A9515
2015-2016: A609
2017-2018: A3211
2019-2020: A1139
2021-2022: A2144
2023-2024: A1240
2025-2026: A3164

2013-A995 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires hotels and motels to notify employees of the presence of bedbugs on the premises; requires the development and administration of training on methods and procedures for the eradication of bedbugs upon hiring and each year thereafter.

2013-A995 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   995

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of A. ROSENTHAL, DINOWITZ, BROOK-KRASNY, WEISENBERG,
  CASTRO, COOK, ROBINSON, GLICK, MAISEL,  HIKIND,  ABINANTI,  HOOPER  --
  Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.  of  A.   ABBATE, ARROYO, BOYLAND, CRESPO,
  CROUCH, ENGLEBRIGHT, GOTTFRIED, McDONOUGH,  SCHIMEL,  TITONE  --  read
  once and referred to the Committee on Health

AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring hotels
  and motels to notify employees of the presence of bedbugs on the prem-
  ises and requires the development and administration  of  training  on
  methods and procedures for the eradication of bedbugs

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1347 of the public health  law  is
amended to read as follows:
  1.  All  departments  and  boards  of  health  and the commissioner or
commissioners thereof shall have the power to enforce the provisions  of
sections  thirteen  hundred forty-five to thirteen hundred [forty-seven]
FORTY-EIGHT, inclusive, of this [chapter] TITLE.
  S 2. Section 1348 of the public health law is renumbered section  1349
and amended to read as follows:
  S  1349.  Hotel sanitation; application of article.  The provisions of
sections thirteen hundred forty-five to thirteen  hundred  forty-seven[,
inclusive,]  of this [chapter] TITLE, shall not apply to cities having a
population of one million inhabitants or over.
  S 3. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 1348  to
read as follows:
  S 1348. HOTEL SANITATION; BEDBUG NOTIFICATION AND TRAINING.  1. HOTELS
AND  MOTELS  SHALL  NOTIFY  EMPLOYEES  OF THE PRESENCE OF BEDBUGS ON THE
PREMISES AND SHALL SPECIFY WHICH ROOMS ARE INFESTED.
  2. NOTIFICATION SHALL BE MADE  PROMPTLY  FOLLOWING  THE  DISCOVERY  OF
BEDBUGS ON THE PREMISES.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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