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Committee advances cleanup bill updating agency references, clarifies swimming-pool oversight
Summary
House Bill 30, described by its sponsor as a cleanup measure following departmental reorganizations, was advanced to the House floor with a due pass recommendation; the sponsor said local health departments will continue pool inspection duties.
The Idaho House Health and Welfare Committee voted to send House Bill 30 to the floor with a due pass recommendation after Representative Lori McCann described the measure as a technical cleanup following agency reorganizations.
Representative Lori McCann, representing District 6 and noting her district includes Latah County, Lewis County and part of Nez Perce County, said the bill updates references after the Department of Health and Welfare ‘‘spun off a couple of different agencies.’’ McCann said portions of duties were transferred to entities she identified as the Department of Juvenile Corrections and the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality and that the bill replaces outdated Department of Health and Welfare references.
Addressing a specific committee concern, McCann said ‘‘pools will continue to be regulated’’ and explained that it makes more sense for local health departments to inspect swimming pools than for the state department to do so. She offered to bring ‘‘Mr. Larson from the department’’ to answer specific questions, but the transcript records no follow-up testimony from him.
Representative Haley moved to send House Bill 30 to the floor with a due pass recommendation; the committee recorded a voice vote and the motion carried. The transcript does not record a roll-call tally or the name of any second.
McCann described the bill as largely technical cleanup rather than a substantive policy change; committee members did not record additional questions or amendments in the transcript excerpt.
