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Relating to the sale, lease, or rental of water treatment systems and including effective date and applicability provisions
Topics:Business & economy
Same legislation: SF 229
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 15, 2019
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 23, 2019
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 11, 2019
- Skipped: Passes the SenateContinued as SF 229
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became SF 229 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to SF 229 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to the sale, lease, rental, or advertisement of water treatment systems. Under current law, it is an unlawful practice for a person to sell, lease, rent, or advertise the sale, lease, or rental of a water treatment system for which claims or representations of removing health-related contaminants are made, unless the water treatment system is performance tested by a third-party testing agency authorized by the department of public health or the manufacturer tested the system and the manufacturer’s data is accepted by a third-party evaluator which was approved by the department of public health; the water treatment system has met the performance testing requirements specified in the testing protocol; the water treatment system bears a label stating, “IMPORTANT NOTICE — Read the Manufacturer’s Performance Data Sheet” and is accompanied by the manufacturer’s performance data sheet, which includes general information about the water treatment system and performance and test data showing the contaminants certified to be reduced; and the consumer information pamphlet compiled by the department of public health is included with the water treatment system.
Read the full explanation
16, the attorney general may investigate a person the attorney general believes is engaged in an unlawful practice and seek and obtain injunctive relief against such a person.16 also permits a court to impose a civil penalty against a person who committed an unlawful practice. The bill amends the requirements so that the sale, lease, rental, or advertisement of a water treatment system is not an unlawful practice if the claims and representations related to removal of health-related contaminants are certified by a certification body accredited by the American national standards institute. The bill eliminates the requirements that a consumer of a water treatment system be provided the manufacturer’s performance data sheet or a consumer information pamphlet compiled by the department of public health.16(2)(j), both of which also relate to the sale, lease, rental, or advertisement of a water treatment system.16(2)(i), it is an unlawful practice for a person to sell, lease, rent, or advertise a water treatment system in this state for which false or deceptive claims or representations of removing health-related contaminants are made.16(2)(j), it is an unlawful practice for a person to make any representation or claim that the seller’s water treatment system has been approved or endorsed by any agency of the state. The bill takes effect January 1, 2020, and applies to the sales, leases, rentals, or advertisements of water treatment systems which occur on or after that date.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 23, 2019. It hasn’t reported yet.
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