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IN HB1436
Bill
Status
1/17/2017
Primary Sponsor
Terri Jo Austin
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AI Summary
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Retail establishments must allow customers with eligible medical conditions (Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis) or those using ostomy devices to use employee restrooms during normal business hours upon request, subject to specified conditions.
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Customer access to employee restrooms requires the restroom to be reasonably safe, at least 3 employees present, no public restroom immediately accessible, and no obvious health or security risks.
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Customers using employee restrooms are responsible for leaving the facility in the same condition as when they entered.
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Retail establishment owners, operators, and employees are granted immunity from civil liability for acts or omissions in allowing eligible customers to use employee restrooms, provided the acts are not willful or grossly negligent and occur in non-public areas.
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Denying a customer access to an employee restroom in violation of the law constitutes a Class C infraction with a maximum civil penalty of $100, and no physical modifications to restrooms are required.
Legislative Description
Access to employee restrooms. Provides that if a retail establishment has a restroom facility on its premises for the use of the retail establishment's employees, a customer, upon request, must be allowed to use the restroom facility during normal business hours if certain conditions are met. Specifies that a customer who uses the retail establishment's employee restroom facility is responsible for leaving the restroom facility in the same condition as when the customer entered the restroom facility. Provides immunity from civil liability for any act or omission in allowing a customer to use an employee restroom facility if all of
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce, Small Business and Economic Development
1/17/2017