Bill Text: NJ A2137 | 2020-2021 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires landlords to provide notice to tenants concerning lead in drinking water.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-14 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee [A2137 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2020-A2137-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 2137

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2020 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  P. CHRISTOPHER TULLY

District 38 (Bergen and Passaic)

Assemblywoman  LISA SWAIN

District 38 (Bergen and Passaic)

Assemblywoman  SHANIQUE SPEIGHT

District 29 (Essex)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywomen Vainieri Huttle and Mosquera

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires landlords to provide notice to tenants concerning lead in drinking water.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  

An Act concerning lead levels in the drinking water of rental properties and supplementing P.L.1977, c.224 (C.58:12A-1 et seq.).

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    a.  A landlord who receives a notice concerning levels of lead in drinking water or health and safety information about lead in drinking water from a public water system shall distribute the notice or information to every tenant whose dwelling unit is served by the public water system.

     b.    A public water system shall include in any notice or information it sends to customers concerning lead in drinking water a statement, printed in easily legible type, setting forth a landlord's obligation to distribute the notice or information to each of the landlord's tenants whose dwelling unit is served by the public water system.

     c.     As used in this section, "landlord" means the same as that term is defined in section 2 of P.L.1975, c. 310 (C.46:8-44).

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill would supplement the "Safe Drinking Water Act," P.L.1977, c.224 (C.58:12A-1 et seq.), to require landlords to distribute notices and information they receive from public water systems about lead in drinking water to each of their tenants.  The bill would also require public water systems to include in any notice or information they send to customers concerning lead in drinking water a statement of a landlord's obligation to distribute the notice or information to each of the landlord's tenants.