September 25, 2018, Introduced by Reps. Gay-Dagnogo, Yancey, Lasinski, Love, Faris, Cochran, Ellison, Geiss, Chirkun, Yanez, Jones, Sowerby, Wittenberg, Sabo, Greimel, Moss, Hoadley and Zemke and referred to the Committee on Natural Resources.
A bill to amend 1976 PA 399, entitled
"Safe drinking water act,"
(MCL 325.1001 to 325.1023) by amending the title, as amended by
1998 PA 56, and by adding section 7a.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
TITLE
An act to protect the public health; to provide for
supervision and control over public water supplies; to prescribe
the powers and duties of the department of environmental quality;
to provide for the submission of plans and specifications for
waterworks systems and the issuance of construction permits
therefor; to provide for capacity assessments and source water
assessments of public water supplies; to provide for the
classification of public water supplies and the examination,
certification and regulation of persons operating those systems; to
provide for continuous, adequate operation of privately owned,
public water supplies; to authorize the promulgation of rules to
carry out the intent of the act; to create the water supply fund;
to
provide for the administration of the water supply fund; and to
provide penalties; and to provide appropriations.
Sec. 7a. (1) In addition to the sampling and analysis of water
conducted under section 7, at least once every 3 years, a supplier
of water that provides water to a nonpublic school, a public
school, or a child care organization in this state shall collect
water samples from drinking water faucets at the school or child
care organization and have those samples analyzed in the manner
provided in section 7 for the presence of lead and all other
contaminants for which there is a state drinking water standard.
The results of that analysis shall be provided to the department
and to the school or child care organization.
(2) As used in this section:
(a) "Child care organization" means that term as defined in
section 1 of 1973 PA 116, MCL 722.111.
(b) "Nonpublic school" means that term as defined in section 5
of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.5.
(c) "Public school" mean that term as defined in section 5 of
the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.5.
(3) For the fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, there is
appropriated for the department of environmental quality
$500,000.00 to reimburse suppliers of water for conducting the
sampling and analysis of water required by this section.