HB 40 — UNIVERSAL ADULT CHANGING STATIONS

HOUSE BILL 40 57TH LEGISLATURE -STATEOFNEWMEXICO-- STATEOFNEWMEXICO- FIRST SESSION, 2025 INTRODUCED BY Kathleen Cates and Charlotte Little and Eleanor Chávez and Elizabeth "Liz" Thomson 7This 9document ANmay ACTincorporate RELATINGamendments TOproposed ACCESSIBILITY;by a committee, but not yet adopted, as well as amendments that have been adopted during the current legislative session.

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a t m m 21 (1) "commercial place of public amusement" d r e 22 means an auditorium, a convention center, a cultural complex, c e s k 23 an exhibition hall, a permanent amusement park, a sports arena, e a n b 24 a theater or a movie house for which the maximum occupancy is u [ determined to be two thousand five hundred or more people;

.228837.3 (2) "covered facility" means a public building orHCEDCº or»HCEDC HCEDCº,»HCEDC commercial place of public amusement HCEDCºor group of interconnected public buildings or commercial places of public amusement that are located on a single premises»HCEDC that:

and (b) receives at least two thousand five hundred visitors per year, as measured by the tourism department;h department HCEDCº using visitor data that is tracked by that g o t hr department»HCEDC ;

g e i k (3) "public building" means a building owned h r i s by the state that is open to the public, including a state park h , t, e u g that has permanent sanitary facilities;facilities HCEDCº or rest e b l e e h areas»HCEDC ;

n d d i = = o h (4) "sanitary facility" means a restroom l ] b ,d i a º e r i = r equipped with a flush toilet and proper drainage for all t e w d m a n o toilets, sinks, basins, bathtubs and showers;

and (5) "universal adult changing station" means a powered, height-adjustable and adult-sized changing table that e t 17 is installed in a single-occupancy restroom that is universal w l n d 18m to: gender and available to the public.

=b e d s º o t n = 19.228837.3AIC February 19, 2025 (9:05pm) s k m e - 2 - e a n e d r e l B.u [ A d (5) "universal adult changing station" means a powered, height-adjustable and adult-sized changing table that is installed in a single-occupancy restroom that is universal to gender and available to the public.

ByB. July 1, 2032, each covered facility shall i a e r 20 install and maintain at least one universal adult changing a t m m 21 station that is universally accessible to all genders when the d r e 22 facility is open to the public.

cBy eJuly s1, k2032, 23each C.covered facility HCEDCº that has a family or gender-neutral bathroom»HCEDC shall install and maintain at least one universal adult changing station that is universally accessible to all genders when the facility is open to the public.

HCEDCº A covered facility shall not be required to install a universal adult changing station if the installation would threaten or destroy the historic significance of a historic property.»HCEDC C.

e a n b 24 (1) each covered facility that undergoes a u [ renovation that is estimated to cost more than fifty thousand .228837.3 - 2 - dollars ($50,000) shall install and maintain at least one h universal adult changing station that is universally accessible u » r to all genders when the facility is open to the public;

and t h g e l i (2) any newly constructed facility that h r i s receives state funding for construction or operating costs h , e h shall be built with at least one universal adult changing t u g e b l e e , gh station that is universally accessible to all genders when the n d d i = = o h facility is open to the public.

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