Bill Text - HB1421 (2022)

Relative to lead in school drinking water.


Revision: April 20, 2022, 10:25 a.m.

Senate Finance

April 20, 2022

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Amendment to HB 1421-FN

 

Amend the bill by inserting after section 1 the following and renumbering the original section 2 to read as 3:

 

2  Funds for Revolving Funds.  The sum of $7,760,000 for the biennium ending June 30, 2023 is hereby appropriated to the department of environmental services for the purpose of providing state matching funds for supplemental Drinking Water State Revolving Fund and Clean Water State Revolving Fund funding authorized by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Public Law 117-58.  The governor is authorized to draw a warrant for said sum out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and said appropriation shall not lapse.

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires public and private schools and licensed child care facilities to install water bottle filling stations or test and remediate all water outlets at the facility.

 

This bill also makes an appropriation for certain drinking water grant programs administered by the department of environmental services.