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HOUSE BILL 40
57
TH LEGISLATURE
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STATE
OF
NEW
MEXICO
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FIRST SESSION
,
2025
INTRODUCED BY
Kathleen Cates
AN ACT
RELATING TO ACCESSIBILITY; ENACTING THE TRAVELING WITH DIGNITY
ACT; REQUIRING ALL FACILITIES THAT RECEIVE STATE FUNDING TO
INSTALL UNIVERSAL ADULT CHANGING STATIONS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
SECTION 1. [NEW MATERIAL] SHORT TITLE.--This act may be
cited as the "Traveling with Dignity Act".
SECTION 2. [NEW MATERIAL] UNIVERSAL ADULT CHANGING
STATIONS REQUIRED IN STATE-FUNDED FACILITIES.--
A. As used in this section:
(1) "commercial place of public amusement"
means an auditorium, a convention center, a cultural complex,
an exhibition hall, a permanent amusement park, a sports arena,
a theater or a movie house for which the maximum occupancy is
determined to be two thousand five hundred or more people;
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(2) "covered facility" means a public building
or commercial place of public amusement that:
(a) houses an entity or program that
receives state funding to cover any portion of the entity or
program's operating costs; and
(b) receives at least two thousand five
hundred visitors per year, as measured by the tourism
department;
(3) "public building" means a building owned
by the state that is open to the public, including a state park
that has permanent sanitary facilities;
(4) "sanitary facility" means a restroom
equipped with a flush toilet and proper drainage for all
toilets, sinks, basins, bathtubs and showers; and
(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.
B. By July 1, 2032, each covered facility 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.
C. After July 1, 2025:
(1) each covered facility that undergoes a
renovation that is estimated to cost more than fifty thousand
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dollars ($50,000) 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; and
(2) any newly constructed facility that
receives state funding for construction or operating costs
shall be built with at least one universal adult changing
station that is universally accessible to all genders when the
facility is open to the public.
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