HB386 Summary

• Encourages persons, enterprises, agencies, or entities that sell swimming pools for one-family or two-family dwellings to advise owners to install a pool alarm.

• Exempts pool sellers from civil liability if they fail to advise buyers to install a pool alarm.

• Exempts pool alarms purchased for installation in residential swimming pools from sales and use taxes when the purchaser certifies the alarm is for residential use.

• Defines a pool alarm as a device emitting at least 50 decibels when a person or object weighing 15 pounds or more enters the water, excluding individual wearable alarm devices.

• Requires the Department of Revenue to prepare forms and promulgate rules for enforcement of the tax exemption and verification procedures.