SENATE BILL REPORT

                            HB 1132

                    AS OF FEBRUARY 18, 1994

Brief Description:  Requiring certification of electric spa equipment.

SPONSORS: Representatives Kremen, Linville and Zellinsky

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE & LABOR

SENATE COMMITTEE ON LABOR & COMMERCE

Majority Report:  Do pass. 

     Signed by Senators Moore, Chairman; Prentice, Vice Chairman; Amondson, Fraser, McAuliffe, Pelz, and Sutherland.

Staff:  Patrick Woods (786‑7430)

Hearing Dates: April 2, 1993; February 23, 1994

BACKGROUND:

Since 1986, each piece of electrical equipment associated with spas, hot tubs, swimming pools, and hydromassage bathtubs has been required to bear a certification mark from an approved electrical products testing laboratory.  There is no requirement that a complete unit - the tub and its electrical equipment - be certified as a unit before offering the unit for sale.

SUMMARY:

Hydromassage bathtubs may not be offered for sale or exchange unless the complete unit, the tub and the electrical equipment, is certified by an approved electrical products testing laboratory.

Appropriation:  none

Revenue:  none

Fiscal Note:  none requested