Bill Text: NJ A5190 | 2016-2017 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires water purveyors to reimburse residential customers for drinking water testing under certain circumstances.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-11-30 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee [A5190 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2016-A5190-Introduced.html

ASSEMBLY, No. 5190

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

217th LEGISLATURE

 

INTRODUCED NOVEMBER 30, 2017

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  DANIEL R. BENSON

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

Assemblywoman  ELIZABETH MAHER MUOIO

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires water suppliers to reimburse residential customers for drinking water testing under certain circumstances.  

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As introduced.

  


An Act concerning reimbursement of costs of water testing to residential customers, 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.  The owner or operator of a public water system shall reimburse a residential customer at the request of the municipality in which the customer resides, for the cost of water testing at the residence by a laboratory certified by the Department of Environmental Protection, when the testing is necessitated by the exceedance of a maximum contaminant level, or action level, as appropriate, of a federal or State drinking water standard by the public water system.  The costs of the water testing shall not be borne by the public water system's regulated rate customers. 

     b.  The Department of Environmental Protection shall adopt, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), rules and regulations to implement the provisions of this section.

    

     2.  This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill would require the owner or operator of a public water system to reimburse a residential customer at the request of the municipality in which the customer resides, for the cost of water testing at the residence by a laboratory certified by the Department of Environmental Protection, when the testing is necessitated by the exceedance of a maximum contaminant level, or action level, as appropriate, of a federal or State drinking water standard by the public water system.  The bill prohibits the costs of the water testing from being passed through to the public water system's regulated rate customers.

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