TO: | Honorable Wayne Smith, Chair, House Committee on County Affairs |
FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | HB1407 by Murphy (Relating to certain swimming pools as public nuisances in the unincorporated areas of counties. ), Committee Report 1st House, Substituted |
The bill would amend the Health and Safety Code to authorize a county that adopts abatement procedures that are consistent with the general purposes of Chapter 343 to abate a nuisance that is a swimming pool by prohibiting or controlling access to the premises where the swimming pool is located and by installing a cover that cannot be opened by a child over the entire swimming pool or by draining and filling the pool. A county would be authorized to take those actions prior to conducting a hearing regarding the nuisance.
The bill would take effect immediately if it were to receive the required two-thirds vote in each house; otherwise, it would take effect September 1, 2007.
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LBB Staff: | JOB, DB
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