Bill > HB2398

This bill, known as "Grant Brown's Show Me a Lifeguard Law", establishes comprehensive safety regulations for summer and day camps in Missouri, focusing primarily on specialized recreational activities and aquatic safety. The legislation requires camps to ensure employees are fully trained and certified when operating specialized equipment, and mandates specific lifeguard requirements for aquatic activities, including a minimum lifeguard-to-child ratio, mandatory lifeguard chair positioning, and mandatory swim tests for children. Camps must also develop and maintain a detailed, site-specific emergency plan covering scenarios like natural disasters, lost children, medical emergencies, and transportation incidents, and ensure that all camp counselors and directors are trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator use. The bill prohibits certain aquatic activities like hot tubs and portable wading pools, requires annual inspections of specialized recreational activities by state departments, and mandates record-keeping of these inspections. The law defines key terms such as "camp counselor", "lifeguard", and "specialized recreational activity" to provide clear guidelines for implementation, and grants rulemaking authority to the departments of elementary and secondary education and health and senior services to administer the provisions of this section.

https://house.mo.gov/Bill.aspx?bill=HB2398&year=2026&code=R