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

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 662

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, as amended, 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 begin insert person, private firm, organization, or corporation that owns or manages a end insert commercial place of public amusement, as defined, begin insert constructed on or after January 1, 2020, or renovated on or after January 1, 2025, end insert to install and maintain at least one adult changing station, as defined, begin delete by January 1, 2020, end delete for a person with a physical disability, as specified. begin delete The bill would extend the compliance period to January 1, 2025, for renovation projects that require permits or have estimated costs of $10,000 or more. end delete 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.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

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)  begin delete Except as provided in subdivision (b), by January
1, 2020, a end delete begin insert A end insert begin insert end insert 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 begin delete public. end delete begin insert public, if either of the
following occur: end insert

begin delete

(b) If the renovation of an existing facility requires a permit or
if the estimated cost of the renovation is ten thousand dollars
($10,000) or more, the facility must comply with this section by
January 1, 2025.

end delete begin insert

(1) The commercial place of public amusement is newly
constructed on or after January 1, 2020.

end insert begin insert

(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.

end insert begin insert

(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.

end insert begin delete

(c)

end delete

begin insert (b) end insert  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.

begin delete

(d)

end delete

begin insert (c) end insert  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 structure, sports arena, or theater or
movie house for which the maximum occupancy is determined to
be begin delete 1,000 end delete begin insert 2,500 end insert or more people. “Commercial place of public
amusement” does not include any public higher education facility.

(2) “Adult changing station” means an adult changing table
placed within an enclosed restroom facility begin insert or other similar private
facility end insert 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.