{"id":19530,"date":"2025-10-24T21:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T21:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/19530\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T21:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T21:21:11","slug":"new-florida-bill-for-pool-safety-requires-at-least-one-safety-feature-upon-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/19530\/","title":{"rendered":"New Florida bill for pool safety requires at least one safety feature upon distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A new Florida law requires residential properties with pools to have at least one safety feature when sold or transferred after October 1, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The measure mandates that properties have a barrier, cover, or alarm as safety measures. Home inspectors are responsible for noting any violations during property transactions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Since 2018, Florida has been the leading state in the U.S. for drowning deaths among children aged 1 to 4. This alarming statistic underscores the importance of new laws aimed at enhancing pool safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new Florida law requires residential properties with pools to have at least one safety feature when sold&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,15893,15894,15895,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-19530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-news","11":"tag-pool-safety","12":"tag-property-transactions","13":"tag-safety-feature","14":"tag-safety-measures"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}