Posted 2/28/24

The Tennessee House Health Subcommittee has advanced legislation aimed at increasing the availability of publicly available adult-sized changing tables in Tennessee. 

House Bill 2690, sponsored by State Representative Clay Doggett, of Pulaski, would allow the Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities to increase grant amounts from $5,000 to $10,000 to support the installation of powered, height-adjustable, adult-sized changing tables in public restrooms statewide. 

The General Assembly in 2022 allocated $1 million in state funding to expand the availability of adult-sized changing tables in public restrooms in Tennessee.

House Bill 2690 is scheduled to be heard in the Health Committee, February 28th.