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Committee backs bill to keep privately rented home pools from public-pool rules
Summary
The House committee voted to report Senate Bill 61 favorably after its sponsor said the measure would prevent private home swimming pools rented via online platforms from being treated as public pools by state regulators.
Senator Craig Richardson, who represents the Third Senate District, told the Committee on Veterans, Military Affairs and Public Protection during its fourth meeting of the 2025 session that Senate Bill 61 is “a swimming pool bill, but at its core, it is a private property rights bill.” The committee voted to report the bill favorably to the House floor.
The bill would change how the state treats privately owned swimming pools that homeowners rent through online platforms. Richardson said sites such as VRBO, Airbnb and swimply.com allow homeowners to rent pools, and under current practice the Department of Public Health treats those pools as public swimming pools. Richardson told the committee the bill “simply to correct that problem by expanding it that a simple definition.”
Committee members moved and seconded consideration of the bill, and the committee clerk called the roll. Sixteen members recorded affirmative votes; no opposing or abstaining votes were recorded in the committee proceeding. The chair announced the bill “passed” and said it “should pass favorably in the House floor.”
The transcript includes no detailed statutory language or specific regulatory changes. The committee’s action was procedural: forwarding the measure with a favorable recommendation rather than adopting an amendment on the floor. The transcript did not specify the exact statutory text to be changed, the effective date if enacted, or any required implementing steps for the Department of Public Health.
The measure now proceeds to the full House for further consideration.
