Relating to lead testing in water supply systems serving child care facilities and schools, and making penalties applicable

The Iowa department of public health (DPH) currently organizes a childhood lead poisoning prevention program. The program does not include testing water systems for lead in child care facilities, child care homes, and schools. This bill requires all child care facilities and all school districts to implement lead testing of their water systems on an annual basis beginning no later than December 31, 2021. The bill requires DPH to work with the department of education and the department of human services to implement rules to carry out the lead-testing requirements. If results of a test exceed micrograms of lead per liter of water, the bill requires the school district or child care facilities administrator to retain a person certified in lead abatement to develop a lead mitigation strategy that shall be implemented within one year of the failed test.3.3.16.2. 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. By operation of law, a person who knowingly violates the bill is guilty of a simple misdemeanor. A simple misdemeanor is punishable by confinement for no more than days and a fine of at least $105 but not more than $855.