Bill Text: NJ S1014 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Environment and Energy Committee [S1014 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-S1014-Introduced.html

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SENATE, No. 1014

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Senator  LINDA R. GREENSTEIN

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

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

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  

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 water 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 lab 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.