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BILL · 2019–20 SESSION · LATEST VERSION SSB 5553

SB 5553: Fitness center safety

Concerning safety and sanitation of fitness centers.

Summary

  • Requires the Board of Health to adopt rules regulating the safety of fitness centers and requires the Department of Health to enforce those rules.
  • Requires fitness centers to receive an operating permit.
  • Limits the enforceability of liability waivers signed by fitness center members.

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
  1. IntroducedJan 23, 2019
  2. Out of committeestopped here
  3. Passed Senate
  4. Passed House
  5. Governor
  6. Law
Prime sponsor
Senator (D-22)
Introduced
January 23, 2019 in the Senate
Last action
January 13, 2020
Budget
Has a fiscal note
Versions
SB 5553, SSB 5553

AN ACT Relating to safety and sanitation of fitness centers;

Sponsors

Prime sponsor: Senator (D-22)

Votes

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

History

  1. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status. (SSB 5553)
  2. By resolution, reintroduced and retained in present status.
  3. Referred to Ways & Means. (SSB 5553)
  4. Referred to Ways & Means.
  5. Minority; without recommendation. (SSB 5553)
  6. HLTC - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass. (SSB 5553)
  7. And refer to Ways & Means. (SSB 5553)
  8. Minority; do not pass. (SSB 5553)
  9. Minority; do not pass.
  10. And refer to Ways & Means.
  11. HLTC - Majority; 1st substitute bill be substituted, do pass.
  12. Minority; without recommendation.
  13. First reading, referred to Health & Long Term Care.

SB 5553 in other sessions

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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