VA HB1295 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-08 - Continued to 2025 in Health and Human Services by voice vote
Pending: House Health and Human Services Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]
Status: Introduced on January 10 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-08 - Continued to 2025 in Health and Human Services by voice vote
Pending: House Health and Human Services Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]
Summary
Drinking water; maximum contaminant levels; water treatment systems; Rural Water Supply Program and Fund established. Directs the State Board of Health to adopt regulations to utilize point-of-use or point-of-entry drinking water treatment or filtration to remove or significantly reduce concentrations of contaminants of concern that meet or exceed any maximum contaminant level or health advisory for the same contaminant adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The bill also establishes the Rural Water Supply Program and Fund to allow the Department of Health's Office of Drinking Water to test and treat contaminated drinking water for individuals on private wells and small rural public water systems.
Title
Drinking water; maximum contaminant levels, water treatment systems.
Sponsors
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-08 | House | Continued to 2025 in Health and Human Services by voice vote |
| 2024-02-06 | House | Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2025 by voice vote |
| 2024-01-23 | House | Assigned sub: Health |
| 2024-01-10 | House | Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services |
| 2024-01-10 | House | Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services |
| 2024-01-10 | House | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101405D |
