Shanel Thomas-Henry

This bill would require that businesses providing or offering massage in a fixed location (“massage therapy businesses”) have a license to operate. Massage therapy businesses would be required to post the license in the location where they operate. Massage therapy businesses would be prohibited from employing or retaining any person to provide massage unless that person has a state license to practice massage therapy or is exempt from the requirement to have such a license pursuant to state law and would be required to retain records for each person providing massage that show the person is licensed or exempt. Any person in violation of these requirements would be liable for civil penalties.

This bill would require that the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), in consultation with the Department of Buildings (DOB), conduct an analysis to identify the common characteristics of cooling towers associated with each Legionnaires’ disease cluster and to issue recommendations to prevent cooling towers from causing future Legionnaires’ disease clusters.

This bill would require the New York City Department of Transportation to provide regular ferry service from Willets Point in Queens to the borough of Manhattan.

This bill would require the Commissioner of the Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) to offer a credit or refund to a permit holder when DPR or another governmental entity determines that the physical area reserved by the permit is unavailable for use during the time period reserved by the permit. DPR or another governmental entity could determine that an area is unavailable for use for any reason, including, but not limited to inclement weather conditions, large-scale events, or law enforcement activity.

This bill would require the Department of Transportation to create a residential parking permit system for the neighborhood of East Elmhurst in Queens.

This bill would ban elected officials and other high-ranking New York City officials from making bets on events in prediction markets when they hold insider information about the event. It also prevents close relatives of those officials from making bets on those events. The bill would also require that officials annually disclose any transaction over $50 that they make on prediction markets and would require the Conflicts of Interest Board to promulgate rules clarifying when any other actions with respect to prediction markets by a government official would violate existing general conflicts of interest provisions.

This bill would require the Commissioner of Health and Mental Hygiene to create and maintain a publicly accessible database and map indicating certain buildings in which residents have been diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease, buildings for which cooling tower testing results indicate levels of Legionella bacteria that are hazardous to human health, and relevant years. The database and map would also have to include this information for the previous 10 years.

This bill would require that the Department of Transportation assess streets and sidewalks underneath elevated train infrastructure to determine if lighting is needed. In areas where the Department determines that lighting is needed, the Department would be required to install lighting in that area within 3 years. Subject to appropriations and necessary approvals, such lighting would need to be of a non-standard, distinctive design. The Department would be required to provide a report on the successes and failures of installation.