Last year, I visited Vancouver and got to go to Granville Island Public Market — one of the great markets in North America.

Sure, I could talk about the wonderful food I got there, but there was something else that felt very unique and downright modern — their restroom.

The bathroom had a sign —

A few weeks back, I reported on the progress of a bill that would require retail establishments to open up their private employee restrooms for customers with some medical conditions. 

House Bill 6328 has now become Public Act 09-129 after the legislature approved the measure late last month.  Yesterday it was transmitted to the

A bill which would allow individuals with certain medical conditions access to private employee restrooms in retail establishments was reported out of the Legislative Commissioner’s Office and approved by various committees on Tuesday.

House Bill 6328 (download here) states that "Any retail establishment that has a restroom for employee use, which typically does not