[Njagdu] NJ Bill A4533 Concerns training of employees about access to public facilities for individuals with service or guide dogs.

[Ginger Kutsch]

NJ Bill A4533 Concerns training of employees about access to public
facilities for individuals with service or guide dogs. 

Source: https://legiscan.com/NJ/text/A4533/2014 

ASSEMBLY, No. 4533 

 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

216th LEGISLATURE

INTRODUCED JUNE 15, 2015

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblywoman  CLEOPATRA G. TUCKER

District 28 (Essex)

 

Assemblyman  BOB ANDRZEJCZAK

 

District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)

 

Assemblyman  ADAM J. TALIAFERRO

 

District 3 (Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem)

 

SYNOPSIS

Concerns training of employees about access to public facilities for
individuals with service or guide dogs. 

 

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT 

 

     As introduced.

 

   

 

 

An Act concerning training of employees about access to public facilities
for individuals with service or guide dogs and supplementing P.L.1945, c.169
(C.10:5-1 et 

seq.).

 

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New
Jersey:

 

 

     1.    Any employer who has one or more employees who serve customers or
other individuals in a place of public accommodation or other public
facility, or who 

otherwise have the ability to provide or deny access to the place or
facility, shall provide training to those employees regarding the right of
an individual with a 

disability to have a guide or service dog in a place of public accommodation
or other public facility pursuant to the provisions of P.L.1971, c.130
(C.10:5-29 et seq.), 

P.L.1977, c.456 (C.10:5-29.1 et seq.), and the "Americans with Disabilities
Act" of 1990, Pub.L.101-336 (42 U.S.C. s.12101 et seq.).  An employer may
satisfy the 

training requirements of this section by utilizing training that may be
provided at no cost by the Division on Civil Rights in the Department of Law
and Public Safety, 

the New Jersey State Bar Association, or any other entity, or may, at its
discretion, implement a training program at its own cost.  The provisions of
this section 

shall be administered and enforced by the division pursuant to the authority
vested in it by the "Law Against Discrimination," P.L.1945, c.169 (C.10:5-1
et seq.).  The 

division shall set minimum standards for the training and make those
standards available upon request.

 

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

STATEMENT

This bill requires any employer who has one or more employees serving
customers or other individuals in a place of public accommodation or other
public facility, or 

otherwise has the ability to provide or deny access to the place or
facility, to provide training to those employees regarding the right of an
individual with a 

disability to have a guide or service dog in places of public accommodation
or other public facilities under the relevant provisions of State and
federal law.  An 

employer may satisfy the training requirement of the bill by utilizing
training that may be provided at no cost by the Division on Civil Rights in
the Department of Law 

and Public Safety, the New Jersey State Bar Association, or any other
entity, or may, at its discretion, implement a training program at its own
cost.

  

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