Bill Text: MI HB5285 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Water; quality; testing for levels of lead and other contaminants in water supplied to public schools; require. Amends 1976 PA 399 (MCL 325.1001 - 325.1023) by adding sec. 7a.

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-03 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 02/02/2016 [HB5285 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-HB5285-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5285

February 2, 2016, Introduced by Reps. Zemke, Phelps, Neeley, Chang, Singh, Hughes, Irwin and Schor and referred to the Committee on Local Government.

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 399, entitled

 

"Safe drinking water act,"

 

(MCL 325.1001 to 325.1023) by adding section 7a.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 7a. In addition to the sampling and analysis of water

 

conducted under section 7, at least once every 3 years, a supplier

 

of water that provides water to a public school in this state shall

 

collect water samples from drinking water faucets at the school and

 

have those samples analyzed in the manner provided in section 7 for

 

the presence of lead and all other contaminants for which there is

 

a state drinking water standard. The results of that analysis shall

 

be provided to the department and to the public school.