Residential Swimming Pool Safety
Summary
Residential Swimming Pool Safety; Requires home inspector to include certain information relating to swimming pools in his or her report; requires that new residential swimming pools meet additional requirement in order to pass final inspection & receive certificate of completion; requires that certain pool safety features meet specified standards; prohibits property owner from transferring ownership of parcel that includes swimming pool unless certain requirements are met; provides civil penalties rather than criminal penalties.
Bill status
died
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 14, 2020
Last action Mar 14, 2020
Floor votes
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Actions timeline
Total actions
5
Key actions
0
Committee
1
Mar 14, 2020
House · Failed
Died in Business and Professions Subcommittee
Mar 14, 2020
House · Failed
Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
Jan 14, 2020
House · Introduced
Introduced
Oct 10, 2019
House · Referred to committee
Referred to Business and Professions Subcommittee; Local, Federal and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee; Commerce Committee
2 primary · 0 co-sponsors
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