CONCERNING SAFETY AND PRIVACY IN CERTAIN ENTITIES; AND CONCERNING THE DESIGNATION OF MULTI-OCCUPANCY RESTROOMS, CHANGING ROOMS, AND SLEEPING QUARTERS IN CERTAIN ENTITIES BASED ON AN INDIVIDUAL'S SEX.

Fiscal Impact Statement Bill: SB486 As Engrossed: 3/31/2025 Bill Subtitle: CONCERNING SAFETY AND PRIVACY IN CERTAIN ENTITIES; AND CONCERNING THE DESIGNATION OF MULTI-OCCUPANCY RESTROOMS, CHANGING ROOMS, AND SLEEPING QUARTERS IN CERTAIN ENTITIES BASED ON AN INDIVIDUAL'S SEX. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsors: Sen. B. Johnson and Rep. Bentley Basic Change: SB486 (engrossed 3/31/2025) provides safety and privacy for an individual using or occupying a multi-occupancy restroom, changing room, or sleeping quarters. An entity covered under the bill include domestic violence shelters, certain correctional and juvenile detention facilities, and public buildings owned by the State of Arkansas and its political subdivisions. The bill would require a covered entity to take reasonable steps to provide an individual with privacy in a designated multi-occupancy restroom, changing room, and sleeping quarter and to prevent its use by a member of the opposite sex. The prohibition does not apply in circumstances where a person of the opposite sex enters a restroom, changing room, or sleeping