Bill Text: MI SB0300 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Water; quality; testing for levels of lead in water supplies and creation of lead task force; provide for. Amends 1976 PA 399 (MCL 325.1001 - 325.1023) by adding sec. 7b.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-05-07 - Referred To Committee On Environmental Quality [SB0300 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2019-SB0300-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL No. 300
May 7, 2019, Introduced by Senators HOLLIER, ANANICH, GEISS, BULLOCK, WOJNO, ALEXANDER, POLEHANKI, CHANG, IRWIN, BRINKS, MOSS, SANTANA, MCMORROW and BAYER and referred to the Committee on Environmental Quality.
A bill to amend 1976 PA 399, entitled
"Safe drinking water act,"
(MCL 325.1001 to 325.1023) by adding section 7b.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 7b. (1) The lead task force is created within the
department.
(2) The task force consists of a representative of the
department and 6 individuals appointed as follows:
(a) Two members appointed by the governor as follows:
(i) A public health official.
(ii) A representative of the Michigan state housing
development authority.
(b) Two members appointed by the senate majority leader as
follows:
(i) A water infrastructure professional.
(ii) A citizen of this state.
(c) Two members appointed by the speaker of the house of
representatives as follows:
(i) A building trades professional.
(ii) A citizen of this state.
(3) The members first appointed to the task force must be
appointed within 30 days after the effective date of the amendatory
act that added this section.
(4) Members of the lead task force shall serve for terms of 1
year or until a successor is appointed, whichever is later.
(5) If a vacancy occurs on the task force, a replacement
appointment shall be made in the same manner as the original
appointment.
(6) A member of the task force may be removed for
incompetence, dereliction of duty, malfeasance, misfeasance, or
nonfeasance in office, or any other good cause.
(7) The department shall call the first meeting of the task
force. At the first meeting, the task force shall elect from among
its members a chairperson and other officers as it considers
necessary or appropriate. After the first meeting, the task force
shall meet at least quarterly, or more frequently at the call of
the chairperson or if requested by 3 or more members.
(8) A majority of the members of the task force constitute a
quorum for the transaction of business at a meeting of the task
force. A majority of the members present and serving are required
for official action of the task force.
(9) The business that the task force performs must be
conducted at a public meeting of the task force held in compliance
with the open meetings act, 1976 PA 267, MCL 15.261 to 15.275.
(10) A writing prepared, owned, used, in the possession of, or
retained by the task force in the performance of an official
function is subject to the freedom of information act, 1976 PA 442,
MCL 15.231 to 15.246.
(11) Members of the task force serve without compensation.
However, members of the task force may be reimbursed for their
actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their
official duties as members of the task force.
(12) The task force shall develop a tool kit for funding
recommendations to the department to remove lead from homes and
businesses, and to provide resources and services to parents of
children with lead poisoning or elevated levels of lead in their
blood. The task force shall provide its initial proposed tool kit
to the department within 90 days after its first meeting.
(13) The task force is dissolved 1 year after the effective
date of the amendatory act that added this section.
(14) As used in this section, "task force" means the lead task
force.
