Senate Bill S7019

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to induction loop listening systems

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations Committee

  • 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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2023-S7019 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6432
Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Public Buildings Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §53, Pub Bldg L

2023-S7019 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires public buildings which are or contain an area of public assembly or service to have equipped and installed an induction loop listening system for use by persons who are deaf or hard of hearing.

2023-S7019 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S7019 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7019
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 16, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
   ment Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the public buildings law, in relation to induction  loop
   listening systems
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 53 of the public buildings law, as amended by chap-
 ter 23 of the laws of 1989, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter  221  of
 the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   § 53. [Assistive]  INDUCTION  LOOP  listening  systems. 1. (A) All new
 public buildings, construction of which commences after  January  first,
 nineteen hundred ninety-one, [containing] WHICH ARE OR CONTAIN WITHIN an
 [auditorium,  theater, meeting hall, hearing room, amphitheater, or room
 used in any similar capacity which are so designated by the  appropriate
 building  and  fire code] AREA OF PUBLIC ASSEMBLY OR SERVICE, shall have
 equipped and installed an [assistive] INDUCTION  LOOP  listening  system
 for  use  by persons who are deaf or hard of hearing who require the use
 of such a system to improve their reception of sound.
   (B) THE OWNER OF ANY PUBLIC BUILDING WHICH IS OR  CONTAINS  WITHIN  AN
 AREA  OF  PUBLIC ASSEMBLY OR SERVICE AND HAS AN INDUCTION LOOP LISTENING
 SYSTEM INSTALLED AND EQUIPPED SHALL POST  IN  A  CLEAR  AND  CONSPICUOUS
 MANNER  PERMANENTLY  MOUNTED  SIGNAGE  TO INDICATE TO VISITORS THAT SUCH
 INDUCTION LOOP LISTENING SYSTEM IS AVAILABLE.
   (C) ON A BIENNIAL BASIS, THE OWNER OF ANY PUBLIC BUILDING WHICH IS  OR
 CONTAINS  WITHIN  AN  AREA  OF  PUBLIC  ASSEMBLY  OR  SERVICE AND HAS AN
 INDUCTION LOOP LISTENING SYSTEM INSTALLED AND EQUIPPED SHALL COMPLETE  A
 SELF-CERTIFICATION   FORM  AND  SUBMIT  SUCH  FORM  TO  THE  STATE  FIRE
 PREVENTION AND BUILDING CODE COUNCIL, ATTESTING THAT SUCH INDUCTION LOOP
 LISTENING SYSTEM CONTINUES TO BE FUNCTIONAL.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04509-01-3
 S. 7019                             2

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