Bill Text: MI HB5553 | 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 colleges and universities; require. Amends 1976 PA 399 (MCL 325.1001 - 325.1023) by adding sec. 7a.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-14 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 04/13/2016 [HB5553 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2015-HB5553-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5553

April 13, 2016, Introduced by Rep. Kosowski 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. (1) In addition to the sampling and analysis of water

 

conducted under section 7, at least once every year, a supplier of

 

water that provides water to a college or university in this state

 

shall collect water samples from the college or university 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 college or university.

 

     (2) As used in this section, "college or university" means all

of the following:

 

     (a) A college or university described in section 4, 5, or 6 of

 

article VIII of the state constitution of 1963.

 

     (b) A junior college or community college established pursuant

 

to section 7 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963.

 

     (c) An independent nonprofit degree-granting college or

 

university.