Bill Text: IL SB2409 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Swimming Facility Act. Provides that rules adopted by the Department of Public Health under the Act must include unique design criteria and general standards for above-ground pools.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-05-09 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB2409 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-SB2409-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB2409 Introduced 2/7/2025, by Sen. Ram Villivalam SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
210 ILCS 125/13 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1213
Amends the Swimming Facility Act. Provides that rules adopted by the Department of Public Health under the Act must include unique design criteria and general standards for above-ground pools.
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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 90. The Swimming Facility Act is amended by
changing Section 13 as follows:
(210 ILCS 125/13) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1213)
Sec. 13. Rules. The Department shall promulgate, publish,
adopt and amend such rules as may be necessary for the proper
enforcement of this Act, to protect the health and safety of
the public using swimming facilities and their appurtenances,
and may, when necessary, utilize the services of any other
state agencies to assist in carrying out the purposes of this
Act. These rules shall include but are not limited to design
criteria for swimming facility areas and bather preparation
facilities, standards relating to sanitation, cleanliness,
plumbing, water supply, sewage and solid waste disposal,
design and construction of all equipment, buildings, rodent
and insect control, communicable disease control, safety and
sanitation of appurtenant swimming facilities. The rules must
include provisions for the prevention of bather entrapment or
entanglement at new and existing swimming facilities. Bather
preparation facilities consisting of dressing room space,
toilets and showers shall be available for use of patrons of

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swimming facilities, except as provided by Department rules.
The rules adopted by the Department under this Section must
include unique design criteria and general standards for
above-ground pools.
(Source: P.A. 96-1081, eff. 7-16-10; 97-957, eff. 1-1-13.)