HB 17-1202

HB 17-1202, also known as the Plumber Qualifications Supervision bill, requires that every plumbing project be reviewed in real-time to make sure it follows all licensing rules and inspection requirements. Local governments and certain higher education institutions must create clear guidelines for their inspectors on how to do these reviews and share these guidelines online. This means that plumbers working on projects now have to follow stricter oversight to ensure they are licensed and comply with regulations, which affects both the plumbing industry and consumers who hire plumbers. Since the bill has been signed into law, it is now enforceable in Colorado.

Official Summary

The bill requires that each plumbing project include a contemporaneous review to ensure compliance with licensure and inspection and apprentice requirements. Each incorporated town or city, county, city and county, or qualified state institution of higher education conducting inspections is required to develop standard procedures to advise its inspectors how to conduct a contemporaneous review and to post its current procedures on its website. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

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