Bill Text: IL HB5800 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Swimming Facility Act. Prohibits the Department of Public Health from requiring a person seeking to perform construction, installation, or major alteration of a swimming facility to be prequalified more than once every 2 years. Provides that a person seeking to perform construction, installation, or major alteration of a swimming facility is not required to prequalify with the Department of Public Health before performing the construction, installation, or major alteration of a swimming facility if the person is registered and in good standing with the Secretary of State, is certified as a Certified Builder Professional by the Pool and Hot Tub Alliance or holds an equivalent credential as determined by the Department of Public Health, and ensures all trade-specific work is performed by individuals licensed under applicable State law. Provides that the Department of Public Health may require evidence of such credentials to be submitted before issuing a permit for construction or major alteration. Grants the Department of Public Health rulemaking authority to implement the prequalification exemption.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2026-06-25 - Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Tony M. McCombie [HB5800 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB5800-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026HB5800 Introduced , by Rep. Tony M. McCombie SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
210 ILCS 125/31
Amends the Swimming Facility Act. Prohibits the Department of Public Health from requiring a person seeking to perform construction, installation, or major alteration of a swimming facility to be prequalified more than once every 2 years. Provides that a person seeking to perform construction, installation, or major alteration of a swimming facility is not required to prequalify with the Department of Public Health before performing the construction, installation, or major alteration of a swimming facility if the person is registered and in good standing with the Secretary of State, is certified as a Certified Builder Professional by the Pool and Hot Tub Alliance or holds an equivalent credential as determined by the Department of Public Health, and ensures all trade-specific work is performed by individuals licensed under applicable State law. Provides that the Department of Public Health may require evidence of such credentials to be submitted before issuing a permit for construction or major alteration. Grants the Department of Public Health rulemaking authority to implement the prequalification exemption.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Swimming Facility Act is amended by
changing Section 31 as follows:
(210 ILCS 125/31)
Sec. 31. Prequalified swimming facility contractor.
(a) Except as provided in subsection (a-5), any Any person
seeking to perform construction, installation, or major
alteration of a swimming facility must be prequalified by the
Department. A prequalified swimming facility contractor must
be registered and in good standing with the Secretary of State
and possess public swimming facility construction experience
as determined by rules promulgated by the Department. Persons
seeking prequalification pursuant to this Section shall apply
for prequalification pursuant to rules adopted by the
Department. The Department must not require a person seeking
to perform construction, installation, or major alteration of
a swimming facility to be prequalified more than once every 2
years.
(a-5) A person seeking to perform construction,
installation, or major alteration of a swimming facility is
not required to be prequalified by the Department if the

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person: (i) is registered and in good standing with the
Secretary of State, (ii) is certified as a Certified Builder
Professional by the Pool and Hot Tub Alliance or holds an
equivalent credential as determined by the Department of
Public Health, and (iii) ensures all trade-specific work is
performed by individuals licensed under applicable State law.
The Department of Public Health may require evidence of such
credentials to be submitted before issuing a permit for
construction or major alteration.
(b) In addition to any other power granted in this Act to
adopt rules, the Department may adopt rules relating to the
exemption established under subsection (a-5) and rules
relating to the issuance or renewal of the prequalification of
a swimming facility contractor or the suspension of the
prequalification of any such person or entity, including,
without limitation, an interim or emergency suspension without
a hearing founded on any one or more of the bases set forth in
this subsection.
The bases for an interim or emergency suspension of the
prequalification of a swimming facility contractor include,
but are not limited to, the following:
(1) A finding by the Department that the public
interest, safety, or welfare requires a summary suspension
of the prequalification without a hearing.
(2) The occurrence of an event or series of events
which, in the Department's opinion, warrants a summary

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suspension of the prequalification without a hearing. Such
events include, without limitation: (i) the indictment of
the holder of the prequalification by a State or federal
agency or another branch of government for a crime; (ii)
the suspension or modification of a license by another
State agency or by a federal agency or another branch of
government after a hearing; (iii) failure to comply with
State law, including, without limitation, this Act and the
rules promulgated thereunder; and (iv) submission of
fraudulent documentation or the making of false statements
to the Department.
(c) If a prequalification is suspended by the Department
without a hearing for any reason set forth in this Section or
in Section 10-65 of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act,
the Department, within 30 days after the issuance of an order
of suspension of the prequalification, shall initiate a
proceeding for the suspension of or other action upon the
prequalification.
(Source: P.A. 97-957, eff. 1-1-13.)