The city's dads, grandpas and other male caregivers can rejoice! New York's City Council passed a bill on Monday that requires many major businesses to provide changing tables in both men's and women's bathrooms, reports Patch.
The bill requires new and renovated buildings that are open to the public, like movie theaters, department stores and restaurants, to have at least one bathroom accessible to women and men with a diaper-changing station on each floor.
If Mayor Bill de Blasio signs the piece of legislation into law, that would mean the men would no longer have to get creative when trying to change their babies and toddlers in public. According to Patch, Councilman Rafael Espinal, who represents Bushwick, introduced the bill after he witnessed another man attempting to change a diaper over a bathroom sink. Espinal was inspired by a similar policy President Obama passed in 2016, the Bathrooms Accessible in Every Situation Act, which applied to all publicly accessible federal buildings.
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