ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

57th Legislature, 2nd Regular Session

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HB 2439: public cold plunge; rules; exemption

Sponsor: Representative Bliss, LD 1

Committee on Government

Overview

Exempts public or semipublic cold plunges from existing Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) pollution-prevention rules.

History

ADEQ must formulate policies, plans and programs to protect the environment. Specifically, they must prescribe reasonably necessary measures to prevent pollution of water used in public or semipublic swimming pools and bathing places and to prevent harmful conditions in those places. The rules are required to outline minimum standards for the design of and for sanitary conditions at any public or semipublic swimming pool or bathing place. ADEQ must provide for abatement as public nuisances of premises and facilities that do not comply with the minimum standards (A.R.S. § 49-104).

Provisions

1.   Specifies that ADEQ's responsibility to prevent water pollution in public or semipublic swimming pools and bathing places does not apply to public or semipublic cold plunges. (Sec. 1)

2.   Allows the ADEQ Director to adopt rules governing the sanitary conditions of public or semipublic cold plunges. (Sec. 1)

3.   Makes technical changes. (Sec. 1)

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