Bill Text: TX HB2858 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
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-Enrolled.html
| 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, 2020. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 2858 was passed by the House on May 9, | ||
| 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 131, Nays 5, 2 present, not | ||
| voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to | ||
| H.B. No. 2858 on May 23, 2019, and requested the appointment of a | ||
| conference committee to consider the differences between the two | ||
| houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report | ||
| on H.B. No. 2858 on May 26, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 136, | ||
| Nays 6, 2 present, not voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 2858 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
| amendments, on May 21, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
| 0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference | ||
| committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and | ||
| that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No. | ||
| 2858 on May 25, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
