Bill Text: TX HB2215 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to private spaces in certain buildings for diaper changing stations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-15 - Referred to State Affairs [HB2215 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2215-Introduced.html
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| By: Hernandez | H.B. No. 2215 | |
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| relating to private spaces in certain buildings for diaper changing | ||
| stations. | ||
| 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 a building permit for the | ||
| construction or renovation 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 diaper | ||
| changing station is available for public use within 300 feet of an | ||
| entrance to the building. | ||
| (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 provide a private space for a | ||
| diaper changing station that is available to the public in a shared | ||
| restroom or space, or in each restroom or space designated as a | ||
| diaper changing station. | ||
| (d) Each diaper changing station shall be maintained, | ||
| repaired, and replaced as necessary and cleaned with the same | ||
| frequency as a restroom in the building. | ||
| 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 general public that begins on or after January 1, | ||
| 2022. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
