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Committee advances agency clean‑up bill; swimming‑pool regulation remains with local health departments, sponsor says
Summary
House Bill 30, described by its sponsor as a statutory clean‑up after departmental reorganization, was sent to the House floor with a due‑pass recommendation. The sponsor said local health departments will continue pool regulation and the bill updates references from the Department of Health and Welfare to other agencies.
BOISE — The House Health and Welfare Committee moved House Bill 30 to the House floor with a due‑pass recommendation on Friday after Representative Lori McCann described the measure as a statutory clean‑up following agency reorganization.
“‘So, when this bill was presented it's basically a clean up bill that when the Department of Health and Welfare kinda spun off a couple of different agencies,’” Representative Lori McCann said during her presentation. She said the bill updates statutory references where responsibilities shifted to the Department of Juvenile Corrections and the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality.
McCann told the committee she wanted to be clear that local swimming‑pool regulation will continue: “There apparently was a little bit of a question in the committee that, they were concerned about swimming pools and I just wanna be very clear that pools will continue to be regulated. The department just has not really been doing those and it makes more sense for the health departments to go out and and, check on swimming pools in our local areas when when that is needed.”
Representative Haley moved to send HB30 to the floor with a due‑pass recommendation; the committee voiced its approval and the chairman announced the motion carried. No further discussion, amendments, fiscal notes or outside testimony on HB30 were recorded in the transcript.
McCann identified her district as District 6, covering Latah County, Lewis County and part of Nez Perce County. She offered to bring a department representative, Mr. Larson, to the committee if members had technical questions, but no department witness spoke on the record during this hearing.
The committee adjourned after completing its two-item agenda and was told multiple legislative service requests would be introduced the following day.
