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.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.