Bill Text: WV SB318 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requiring handrails in handicap restrooms
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-27 - To Health and Human Resources [SB318 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2011-SB318-Introduced.html
A BILL to amend and reenact §5-15-4 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to requiring that handicap restroom facilities and stalls in all public places be constructed with two handrails or grab bars to accommodate persons in wheelchairs and other persons who need assistance.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §5-15-4 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 15. WHITE CANE LAW.
§5-15-4. Equal right to use public facilities; service animals and trainers.
(a) A person who is blind or is a person with a disability
(b) Any person who is blind and any person with a disability is entitled to full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of all common carriers, airplanes, motor vehicles, railroad trains, motor buses, streetcars, boats or any other public conveyances or modes of transportation, hotels, lodging places, restaurants, professional offices for health or legal services, hospitals, other places of public accommodation, amusement or resort, and other places, including places of employment, to which the general public is invited, subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law and applicable alike to all persons.
(c) Every person who is blind, every person with a hearing impairment and every person with a disability
(d) The rights, privileges and responsibilities provided by this section also apply to any person who is certified as a trainer of a service animal while he or she is engaged in the training.
(e) A service animal as defined by section three of this article is not required to be licensed or certified by a state or local government, nor
(f) After the effective date of the amendment to this section during the 2011 legislative session, handicap restroom facilities and stalls in all public places with handicap accommodations shall be constructed with two handrails or grab bars to accommodate persons in wheelchairs and other persons who need assistance.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require handicap restroom facilities and stalls in all public places be constructed with two handrails or grab bars to accommodate persons in wheelchairs and other persons who need assistance.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.