US Congress House Bill 852 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 61-0)
Status: Introduced on January 29 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-01-29 - Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Pending: House Energy And Commerce Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to (1) test for lead in drinking water at schools and day care facilities, and (2) create a grant program for lead testing and remediation efforts in schools and day care facilities. Specifically, the EPA must promulgate a national primary drinking water regulation for schools and day care facilities that establishes a lead action level (a level of lead in drinking water that triggers additional actions to control lead contamination) that is no more than 15 parts per billion; directs each public water system to sample for lead in the drinking water at schools and day care facilities if the EPA determines there is a risk that the lead in the drinking water will meet or exceed the action level; and requires public water systems that serve schools or day cares that meet or exceed the action level to notify the local educational agency, the relevant local health agencies, the municipality, and the state as soon as practicable, but no later than 24 hours after the system receives the sampling results. The EPA must also establish a grant program for (1) testing drinking water in schools and day care facilities for lead contamination, and (2) remediating lead contamination in such drinking water by replacing lead pipes and certain plumbing materials with lead-free material.

Get the Lead Out of Schools Act

Rep. Brenda Lawrence [D-MI]	Rep. Mike Quigley [D-IL]	Rep. Seth Moulton [D-MA]	Rep. Val Demings [D-FL]
Rep. Bennie Thompson [D-MS]	Rep. Tim Ryan [D-OH]	Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL]	Rep. Cheri Bustos [D-IL]
Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Lacy Clay [D-MO]	Rep. Brendan Boyle [D-PA]
Rep. Gwen Moore [D-WI]	Rep. Bobby Rush [D-IL]	Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard [D-CA]	Rep. Andre Carson [D-IN]
Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL]	Rep. Frederica Wilson [D-FL]	Rep. John Garamendi [D-CA]	Rep. Jennifer Wexton [D-VA]
Rep. Grace Meng [D-NY]	Rep. Kathy Castor [D-FL]	Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN]	Rep. Ilhan Omar [D-MN]
Rep. Cedric Richmond [D-LA]	Rep. Sean Maloney [D-NY]	Rep. Katie Hill [D-CA]	Rep. Eddie Johnson [D-TX]
Rep. Darren Soto [D-FL]	Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI]	Rep. Alcee Hastings [D-FL]	Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY]
Rep. Daniel Kildee [D-MI]	Rep. Jose Serrano [D-NY]	Rep. Ann Kuster [D-NH]	Rep. Eliot Engel [D-NY]
Rep. James McGovern [D-MA]	Rep. Jamie Raskin [D-MD]	Rep. Henry Johnson [D-GA]	Rep. Sanford Bishop [D-GA]
Rep. James Clyburn [D-SC]	Rep. Marcia Fudge [D-OH]	Rep. Bonnie Coleman [D-NJ]	Rep. Alma Adams [D-NC]
Rep. Robin Kelly [D-IL]	Rep. G. Butterfield [D-NC]	Rep. Gregory Meeks [D-NY]	Rep. Ayanna Pressley [D-MA]
Rep. Steven Horsford [D-NV]	Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D-TX]	Rep. Jared Golden [D-ME]	Rep. Jerry McNerney [D-CA]
Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. Chellie Pingree [D-ME]	Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D-NY]
Rep. Lauren Underwood [D-IL]	Rep. Abigail Spanberger [D-VA]	Rep. Elaine Luria [D-VA]	Rep. Matthew Cartwright [D-PA]
Rep. Grace Napolitano [D-CA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-01-29	House	Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
2019-01-29	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/852/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr852/BILLS-116hr852ih.pdf