File #: Int 0128-2022    Version: Name: Diaper changing accommodations in parks and redesignating section 18-148.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Parks and Recreation
On agenda: 3/24/2022
Enactment date: 5/12/2023 Law number: 2023/056
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to diaper changing accommodations in parks and redesignating section 18-148
Sponsors: Rafael Salamanca, Jr., Shahana K. Hanif, Kevin C. Riley, Althea V. Stevens, Julie Won, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Mercedes Narcisse, Shekar Krishnan, Farah N. Louis, Amanda Farías, Crystal Hudson, Alexa Avilés, Marjorie Velázquez, Eric Dinowitz, Chi A. Ossé, Tiffany Cabán, James F. Gennaro
Council Member Sponsors: 17
Summary: This bill would require that every bathroom under the jurisdiction of the Parks Department have a safe, sanitary and convenient diaper changing station, deck, table or similar amenity, with half of all bathrooms being equipped by December 31, 2025, three-quarters of bathrooms by December 31, 2026 and all remaining bathrooms by December 31, 2027. If the Parks commissioner determines that a restroom does not have sufficient space for the installation of a diaper changing station, or that the installation would negatively impact public safety, the commissioner must notify the speaker of the council and the local council member within 10 days of that determination being made
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 128-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 128, 3. Int. No. 128, 4. March 24, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-24-22, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - March 24, 2022, 7. Committee Report 3/1/23, 8. Hearing Testimony 3/1/23, 9. Hearing Transcript 3/1/23, 10. Proposed Int No. 128-A - 4/11/23, 11. Committee Report 4/11/23, 12. Hearing Transcript 4/11/23, 13. Hearing Transcript 4/11/23, 14. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 15. April 11, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 16. Int. No. 128-A (FINAL), 17. Fiscal Impact Statement, 18. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4-11-23
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
5/16/2023ARafael Salamanca, Jr. City Council Returned Unsigned by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/12/2023ARafael Salamanca, Jr. Administration City Charter Rule Adopted  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/27/2023ARafael Salamanca, Jr. City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/11/2023ARafael Salamanca, Jr. City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
4/11/2023*Rafael Salamanca, Jr. Committee on Parks and Recreation Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/11/2023*Rafael Salamanca, Jr. Committee on Parks and Recreation Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/11/2023*Rafael Salamanca, Jr. Committee on Parks and Recreation Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/11/2023ARafael Salamanca, Jr. Committee on Parks and Recreation Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
3/1/2023*Rafael Salamanca, Jr. Committee on Parks and Recreation Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/1/2023*Rafael Salamanca, Jr. Committee on Parks and Recreation Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/24/2022*Rafael Salamanca, Jr. City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/24/2022*Rafael Salamanca, Jr. City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 128-A

 

By Council Members Salamanca, Hanif, Riley, Stevens, Won, Sanchez, Narcisse, Krishnan, Louis, Farías, Hudson, Avilés, Velázquez, Dinowitz, Ossé, Cabán and Gennaro

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to diaper changing accommodations in parks and redesignating section 18-148

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 18 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 18-159 to read as follows:

§ 18-159 Diaper changing accommodations. a. Subject to appropriation, by December 31, 2027, every restroom intended for use by the general public in every park under the jurisdiction of the commissioner shall have a safe, sanitary and convenient diaper changing station, deck, table or similar amenity, which shall comply with section 603.5 (Diaper Changing Tables) of ICC A117.1, except where the commissioner determines that a restroom does not offer sufficient space for the installation of a diaper changing station, or where the installation of a diaper changing station would negatively impact public safety.

b. By December 31, 2026, three quarters of the restrooms subject to the requirements of subdivision a of this section shall have a diaper changing station, deck, table or similar amenity, as described in such subdivision.

c. By December 31, 2025, one-half of the restrooms subject to the requirements of subdivision a of this section shall have a diaper changing station, deck, table or similar amenity, as described in such subdivision.

d. Where the commissioner determines, pursuant to subdivision a of this section, that a restroom does not offer sufficient space for the installation of a diaper changing station, or that the installation of a diaper changing station would negatively impact public safety, the commissioner shall notify the speaker of the council and the council member in whose district such restroom is located within 10 days of such determination being made. Such notice shall be in writing, specify the location of such restroom, and state the reason and basis for the commissioner’s determination.

§ 2. Section 18-148 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 71 for the year 2018, is redesignated section 18-148.1.

§ 3. This local law takes effect immediately after it becomes law.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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