Bills › 89th General Assembly
Requiring radon testing and mitigation in public schools, and including applicability provisions
Topics:K–12 education
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 27, 2021
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, 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 test using a 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, 2026, and at least once every five years thereafter. Each school district shall publish its most recent results on its 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 the tests 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 radon mitigation. However, the bill requires all new school construction to incorporate radon resistant construction techniques. 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.
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- HF 673 To require radon testing and mitigation in public schools and including applicability prov…88th General Assembly · Approved by committee · nearly identicalCleared committee
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- HF 2264 Requiring radon testing and mitigation in public schools, and including applicability prov…89th General Assembly · Renumbered as HF 2412Nearly identical
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