Bill Text: CA AB662 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Public accommodation: disabled adults: changing facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-10-10 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 742, Statutes of 2015. [AB662 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB662-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 662	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  742
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  OCTOBER 10, 2015
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  OCTOBER 10, 2015
	PASSED THE SENATE  SEPTEMBER 8, 2015
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 9, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 3, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 31, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 7, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 1, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 28, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 14, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bonilla

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2015

   An act to add Section 19952.5 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to public accommodation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 662, Bonilla. Public accommodation: disabled adults: changing
facilities.
   The federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the
California Building Standards Code require that specified buildings,
structures, and facilities be accessible to, and usable by, persons
with disabilities. Existing law requires, among others, any person
who owns or manages a place of public amusement and resort to provide
seating or accommodations for physically disabled persons in a
variety of locations within the facility, as specified. Existing law
authorizes the district attorney, the city attorney, the Attorney
General or, in certain instances, the Department of Rehabilitation
acting through the Attorney General, to bring an action to enjoin a
violation of prescribed requirements relating to access to buildings
by disabled persons.
   This bill would require a person, private firm, organization, or
corporation that owns or manages a commercial place of public
amusement, as defined, constructed on or after January 1, 2020, or
renovated on or after January 1, 2025, to install and maintain at
least one adult changing station, as defined, for a person with a
physical disability, as specified. The bill would require a facility
to ensure that the entrance to each adult changing station has
conspicuous signage indicating its location, and, if the facility has
a central directory, ensure that the central directory indicates the
location of the adult changing station.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 19952.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   19952.5.  (a) A person, private firm, organization, or corporation
that owns or manages a commercial place of public amusement shall
install and maintain at least one adult changing station for persons
with a physical disability that is accessible to both men and women
when the facility is open to the public, if either of the following
occur:
   (1) The commercial place of public amusement is newly constructed
on or after January 1, 2020.
   (2) (A) When an existing commercial place of public amusement is
renovated on or after January 1, 2025, and requires a permit or the
estimated cost of the renovation is ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or
more.
   (B) A commercial place of public amusement with an enclosed
restroom facility or other similar private facility with an adult
changing table in use before January 1, 2025, shall be deemed to
comply with this paragraph.
   (b) A facility shall ensure that the entrance to each adult
changing station has conspicuous signage indicating the location of
the station, and, if the facility has a central directory, shall
ensure that the central directory indicates the location of the adult
changing station.
   (c) For purposes of this section, all of the following definitions
shall apply:
   (1) "Commercial place of public amusement" means an auditorium,
convention center, cultural complex, exhibition hall, permanent
amusement park, sports arena, or theater or movie house for which the
maximum occupancy is determined to be 2,500 or more people.
"Commercial place of public amusement" does not include any public or
private higher education facility or district agricultural
association.
   (2) "Adult changing station" means an adult changing table placed
within an enclosed restroom facility or other similar private
facility that is for use by persons with physical disabilities who
need help with diapering.
   (3) "Physical disability" means a mental or physical disability,
as described in Section 12926 of the Government Code.