Bill Text: NJ S984 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires water supplier to notify affected municipalities, school districts, charter schools, nonpublic schools, and institutions of higher education of violations of drinking water quality standards.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-12-18 - Substituted by A1400 (1R) [S984 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-S984-Amended.html

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[First Reprint]

SENATE, No. 984

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)

Senator  SHIRLEY K. TURNER

District 15 (Hunterdon and Mercer)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Senator Ruiz

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires water supplier to notify affected municipalities, school districts, charter schools, nonpublic schools, and institutions of higher education of violations of drinking water quality standards.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     As reported by the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee on November 13, 2025, with amendments.

  

An Act concerning notification of violations of drinking water quality standards, 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.    The owner or operator of a public water system shall immediately notify, by telephone and electronic mail, the governing body of a municipality and the chief administrator of every school district, charter school, ¹[and]¹ nonpublic school¹, and institution of higher education¹ located within the municipality whenever the public water system ¹[violates any drinking water quality standard for drinking water supplied by the public water system within the municipality] incurs a violation requiring a Tier 2 Public Notice required pursuant to the United States Environmental Protection Agency's National Primary Drinking Water Regulations at Part 141, subpart Q of Title 40, Code of Federal Regulations¹.  The notification shall provide the name of any contaminant that exceeds a drinking water quality standard, the maximum contaminant level or the action level, as appropriate, for the contaminant, the level of the contaminant found on each date, the dates when the tests were performed, the location of each sample tested, and the location of each sample tested that exceeds a maximum contaminant level or action level.  The owner or operator of the public water system shall also provide information on suggested remedies that a customer may take to address the violation  .

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.