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Committee advances technical bill removing outdated Health and Welfare references, returns pool regulation to local control
Summary
House Bill 202, designed to update code references following past agency reorganizations and to remove Department of Health and Welfare from rulemaking for most public pools, was advanced to the Senate floor with a due‑pass recommendation after committee discussion.
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee voted to advance House Bill 202 to the floor with a due‑pass recommendation. The bill updates statutory references to reflect agencies that were split from the Department of Health and Welfare years earlier and removes the department from promulgating and regulating most public swimming pools.
Jared Larson, Legislative and Regulatory Affairs Chief at the Department of Health and Welfare, told the committee the bill corrects outdated references created when the Idaho Department of Juvenile Corrections (IDJC) split from the department in 1995 and when…
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