Bill Text: TX SB2199 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to private spaces for diaper changing stations in restrooms in certain buildings.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-25 - Co-author authorized [SB2199 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2199-Introduced.html
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| By: Taylor | S.B. No. 2199 | |
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| relating to private spaces for diaper changing stations in | ||
| restrooms in certain buildings. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 341, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 341.070 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 341.070. DIAPER CHANGING STATIONS. (a) In this | ||
| section: | ||
| (1) "Health facility" means a facility licensed under | ||
| Subtitle B, Title 4. | ||
| (2) "Historic structure" has the meaning assigned by | ||
| Section 442.001, Government Code. | ||
| (b) This section does not apply to: | ||
| (1) a restroom renovation with an estimated cost of | ||
| less than $10,000; | ||
| (2) the construction or renovation of a building for | ||
| which the governmental entity issuing the building permit | ||
| determines that installing a diaper changing station would: | ||
| (A) be infeasible; | ||
| (B) result in noncompliance with federal, state, | ||
| or local health, life safety, or building code requirements; or | ||
| (C) limit the accessibility of a restroom to a | ||
| person with a disability; | ||
| (3) an industrial building, nightclub, bar, | ||
| retirement community, or other establishment that restricts access | ||
| to the premises based on age; | ||
| (4) a health facility with single-occupancy | ||
| restrooms; | ||
| (5) a historic structure; | ||
| (6) a restaurant with a seating capacity of less than | ||
| 50 persons; or | ||
| (7) a building in which a centrally located facility | ||
| with a diaper changing station is available for public use. | ||
| (c) A person who engages in or contracts for the | ||
| construction of a building, or the renovation of the restrooms of a | ||
| building, with one or more restrooms accessible to the public, | ||
| including a building owned or leased by this state or a political | ||
| subdivision of this state, shall ensure that every member of the | ||
| public has access to a private space for a diaper changing station | ||
| in at least one restroom. | ||
| (d) Each diaper changing station shall be maintained, | ||
| repaired, and replaced as necessary and cleaned with the same | ||
| frequency as the restroom in which the station is located. | ||
| SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
| the construction or renovation of a building with restrooms | ||
| accessible to the public that begins on or after January 1, 2020. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
