Pre-filed December 1, 1995, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.

Read 2nd time January 4, 1996, and referred to the Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations.

Reported from the Committee February 5, 1996, with recommendation that the bill do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar.

Taken up February 15, 1996. Read 3rd time and placed upon its final passage; bill passed.

TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.

S1813.01P

To repeal sections 292.630 and 701.450, RSMo Supp. 1995, relating to certain public facilities, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to the same subject.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Sections 292.630 and 701.450, RSMo Supp. 1995, are repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof to be known as sections 292.630 and 701.450, to read as follows:

292.630. 1. At all construction projects at which twenty people or more are engaged in the performance of work, the primary employer or contractor at such project shall provide at least one portable toilet for each twenty people; except that, the provisions of this section shall not apply to any railroad company.

2. The provisions of this section shall be enforced by the department of labor and industrial relations through the division of labor standards. Upon a finding by a court of competent jurisdiction that a primary employer or contractor has willfully violated or [omitted] failed to comply with the requirements of this section, such person or persons shall be subject to penalty as provided by section 290.340, RSMo.

701.450. 1. For any facility for which construction commences after the effective date of this act which is constructed as a place of assembly for public amusement including, but not limited to, sports stadiums and arenas, auditoriums and assembly halls, there shall be provided at least an equal number of water closets for women as there are the number of water closets and urinals provided for men, and there shall be provided an equal number of diaper changing stations for men as there are the number provided for women.

2. Each facility described in subsection 1 of this section constructed or under construction prior to the effective date of this act shall provide water closets in the same ratio as required in subsection 1 of this section whenever such facility undergoes major structural renovation.

3. As used in subsection 2 of this section, the term major structural renovation" means any reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition or other improvement which requires more than fifty percent of the gross floor area of the existing facility to be rebuilt. The provisions of this act shall only apply to such portions of the building being renovated and not to the entire building.