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Relating to lead and copper testing in water supply systems serving child care facilities and schools, and making penalties applicable
Topics:K–12 educationEnvironment & natural resourcesChild care
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 22, 2023
- 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 General Assembly adjourned on April 19, 2024. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
This bill relates to testing for lead and copper in water supply systems serving child care facilities and schools. Federal regulations currently require owners and operators of water supply systems to compile a pool of targeted sampling sites in the water supply system’s distribution system that “is sufficiently large to ensure that the water system can collect the number of lead and copper tap samples” as required depending on the size of the water supply system. Federal regulations provide procedures for additional monitoring and mitigation measures.
Read the full explanation
The bill requires each owner or operator of a water supply system, as defined in the bill, to collect samples annually from no fewer than percent of the child care facilities and no fewer than percent of the school district attendance centers that the water supply system serves. Such samples shall be tested for the presence of lead and copper. The bill requires the owner or operator of a water supply system to ensure that samples are collected from every child care facility and every school district attendance center that the water supply system serves during each five-year period. The bill requires an owner or operator of a water supply system to provide the respective results to the child care facility or school district attendance center that was tested and include information on actions to reduce the presence of lead and copper in the drinking water and methods to communicate results to users. The bill requires each owner or operator of a water supply system to submit an annual report to the department of health and human services, the department of natural resources, and the local boards of health having jurisdiction over a location that was tested during the reporting period. The report shall include test results from July of the preceding year through June of the reporting year. The bill requires each owner or operator of a water supply system to compile a list of all child care facilities and school district attendance centers in the water supply system’s service area and make the list available on the system’s internet site. environmental protection agency on lead and copper reduction strategies. By operation of law, a person who knowingly violates the provisions of 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.
From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text
Iowa Code it changes
Creates§135.105E
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- HF 335 Relating to lead and copper testing in water supply systems serving child care facilities …89th General Assembly · In committee · same titleCleared committee
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