Bill Text: TX HB2858 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to adoption of a uniform swimming pool and spa code for use in municipalities in this state.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 1, 2020 [HB2858 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2858-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to adoption of a uniform swimming pool and spa code for use in municipalities in this state.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 1, 2020 [HB2858 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB2858-Comm_Sub.html
86R23822 SCL-D | |||
By: Toth, Romero, Jr. | H.B. No. 2858 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2858: | |||
By: Button | C.S.H.B. No. 2858 |
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relating to adoption of a uniform swimming pool and spa code for use | ||
in municipalities in this state. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. The heading to Subchapter C, Chapter 214, Local | ||
Government Code, is amended to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER C. SWIMMING POOLS AND SPAS [ |
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SECTION 2. Subchapter C, Chapter 214, Local Government | ||
Code, is amended by adding Section 214.103 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 214.103. INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING POOL AND SPA CODE. | ||
(a) In this section, "International Swimming Pool and Spa Code" | ||
means the International Swimming Pool and Spa Code promulgated by | ||
the International Code Council. | ||
(b) To protect the public health, safety, and welfare, the | ||
International Swimming Pool and Spa Code, as it existed on May 1, | ||
2019, is adopted as the municipal swimming pool and spa code in this | ||
state. | ||
(c) The International Swimming Pool and Spa Code applies to | ||
all construction, alteration, remodeling, enlargement, and repair | ||
of swimming pools and spas in a municipality that elects to regulate | ||
pools or spas, including under Section 214.101. | ||
(d) A municipality may establish procedures for: | ||
(1) the adoption of local amendments to the | ||
International Swimming Pool and Spa Code; and | ||
(2) the administration and enforcement of the | ||
International Swimming Pool and Spa Code. | ||
(e) A municipality may review and adopt amendments made by | ||
the International Code Council to the International Swimming Pool | ||
and Spa Code after May 1, 2019. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |