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To require radon testing and mitigation in public schools and including applicability provisions
Sponsored by the House Education Committee
Topics:State budgetK–12 education
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 12, 2019
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 13, 2019
- Done: House committeeMarch 5, 2019
- Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to testing for radon at public schools. The bill defines “short-term test” as a testing device that remains in an area for two to seven days to determine the amount of radon in the air. The bill requires the board of directors of each public school district to have a short-term test for radon gas performed at each attendance center under its control at least once by July 1, 2024, and at least once every five years thereafter. Each school district shall publish its most recent results on its school district internet site.
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1 or by those district employees trained in radon testing programs as approved by the department of education and the department of public health. If the results of a short-term test are at or above four picocuries per liter, the bill requires the board to have a second short-term test performed at the attendance center within days of the first test. If the averaged results of a second test are at or above four picocuries per liter, the bill requires the board to retain or employ a person credentialed to develop a radon mitigation plan. The radon mitigation plan must be completed within two years of the first test. Radon mitigation is not required at an attendance center if the district intends to abandon the building within five years or has a plan to renovate the attendance center within five years and the renovation will include mitigation. However, the bill requires all new school construction to incorporate radon resistant construction techniques. The bill requires the department of public health and the department of education to each adopt rules to jointly administer the provisions of the bill relating to radon testing in schools. The bill adds radon testing and radon mitigation pursuant to the bill to the list of permissible uses of a physical plant and equipment levy by a school district.3.3.3.2. The inclusion of this specification is intended to reinstate the requirement of political subdivisions to comply with any state mandates included in the bill.3 may be used from infrastructure and property tax relief purposes to any other purpose to be approved by a vote of at least two-thirds of the members of both chambers of the general assembly.
House subcommittee
Named March 12, 2019. On March 13, 2019 it recommended passage.
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Fiscal note
Cost: up to $350,000 Compare with other bills
House File 755 is estimated to cost the Department of Public Health $25,000 to upgrade its existing licensing database. The statewide cost estimate for initial radon testing for public schools is approximately $350,000. The cost estimate for required additional radon testing to public school districts is currently unknown and will depend on the number of radon tests that provide positive radon results.
- Radon Testing · April 1, 2019
- Radon Testing · March 11, 2019
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