Requiring radon testing and mitigation in public schools, and including applicability provisions

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.