Bill Text: VA SB449 | 2012 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Soccer goals, movable; Board of Housing & Community Development to develop guidelines for anchoring.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-06 - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology (10-Y 5-N) [SB449 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2012-SB449-Prefiled.html
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12100658D Whereas, there are approximately 500,000 soccer goals in the United States; and Whereas, many of these soccer goals are unsafe due to improper design, manufacture, or installation; and Whereas, problems also arise with the instability of movable soccer goals when they are unanchored, not properly anchored, or not properly counterbalanced; and Whereas, unstable soccer goals pose an unnecessary risk of tip-over to children who climb on the goals or nets or hang from the crossbar and have the potential to cause catastrophic injury to persons around the soccer goal; and Whereas, according to the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission, at least nine children under the age of 16 have died and approximately 2000 serious injuries have occurred as a result of accidents involving movable soccer goals between 1998 to 2010; and Whereas, the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission has promulgated Guidelines for Movable Soccer Goal Safety; and Whereas, the establishment of statewide guidelines for soccer goal safety will help to ensure the safety of children around soccer goals at schools and other recreational areas; now, therefore, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: 1. §1. The Board of Housing and Community Development shall develop guidelines for anchoring movable soccer goals located in public recreational areas. As used in this act, "public recreaction area" means a publicly or privately owned area used by members of the public for recreational activities. |
