Text of WV HB 4977 (2024)
Requiring that if baby changing stations are installed by an establishment that these be put in both male and female restrooms
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WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2024 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
House Bill 4977
By Delegates Holstein and Horst
[Introduced January 22,2024; Referred
to the Committee on Government Organization]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new article, designated §16-67-1, relating to requiring that public restrooms provide diaper changing stations in both male and female restrooms if these stations are provided at all.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
article 67. diaper changing stations.
§16-67-1. Diaper changing station location requirements.
(a) Beginning January 1, 2025, all new business and charity locations open to the public with male and female restrooms that choose to provide a diaper changing station in the restroom for one gender must provide a changing station for the bathroom of both genders.
(b) Nothing in this article shall be construed to read that a diaper changing station is required to be provided in any public restroom.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require that public restrooms provide diaper changing stations in both male and female restrooms if these stations are provided at all.
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