To amend section 3731.12 of the Revised Code to require hotels to provide a bed that is suitable for use with a portable lift in any room that the hotel holds out to be a sleeping room or suite that is accessible to the physically disabled and to direct the state fire marshal to adopt by rule a description of the access and clearance needed for a bed to comply with the requirement.

Section 1. That section 3731.12 of the Revised Code be amended to read as follows:

Sec. 3731.12.  (A) Every transient hotel and extended stay hotel shall provide in each sleeping room or extended stay temporary residence a bed, bunk, cot, or other furniture designed for sleeping for each guest occupying such accommodations. Every hotel shall provide each bed, bunk, cot, or other sleeping place for the use of transient or extended stay guests with pillow slips and under and top sheets. All sheets and pillow slips used on any furniture designed for sleeping shall be white or off-white in color and shall be washed daily if requested by a guest, and all such sheets and pillow slips, after being used by one guest, shall be washed before being used by another guest.

(B) All extended stay hotels shall provide furniture adequate for living, eating, cooking, sanitation, and sleeping within each dwelling unit.

(C) Except as otherwise specified in division (D) of this section, all residential hotels may, but are not required to, provide furniture adequate for living, eating, cooking, sanitation, and sleeping within each dwelling unit.

(D) All residential hotels, upon request of the dwelling unit guest, shall provide furniture adequate for living, eating, cooking, sanitation, and sleeping within each dwelling unit. Residential hotels may charge appropriate additional fees for the provision of any furniture pursuant to this section.

(E) Every hotel shall provide in any room the hotel holds out as an accessible sleeping room or suite, at least one bed of a type that is suitable for use with a portable lift that the guest provides. The fire marshal shall adopt by rule a description of the access to the bed and amount of clearance between the floor and the bottom of the bed that is needed in order for a bed to comply with the requirements of this division.

Section 2. That existing section 3731.12 of the Revised Code is hereby repealed.