Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Jan 03, 2018 |
referred to ways and means |
Jan 17, 2017 |
reported referred to ways and means |
Jan 05, 2017 |
referred to health |
Assembly Bill A310
2017-2018 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
JAFFEE
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
Charles Lavine
Vivian Cook
Walter T. Mosley
William Colton
multi-Sponsors
Ron Castorina Jr.
Alicia Hyndman
Felix Ortiz
Fred Thiele
2017-A310 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Senate Version of this Bill:
- S5031
- Current Committee:
- Assembly Ways And Means
- Law Section:
- Public Health Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §206, Pub Health L; amd §§444-g & 466, RP L; amd §97-b, St Fin L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2011-2012:
A7866
2013-2014: A1039
2015-2016: A804
2019-2020: A1194, S1845
2021-2022: S47
2017-A310 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Creates the well water and water supply education act; requires the department of health to establish and maintain a public education program on the potential hazards of private water supplies; requires home inspectors, licensed real estate agents and brokers to provide private water supply education materials to prospective buyers of property where such property is serviced by a private water supply.
2017-A310 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 310 2017-2018 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 5, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JAFFEE, LAVINE, COOK, MOSLEY, COLTON, ARROYO, ABINANTI, HUNTER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GALEF, RIVERA, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, the real property law and the state finance law, in relation to enacting the well water and water supply education act THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "well water and water supply education act". § 2. Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding a new subdivision 31 to read as follows: 31. THE COMMISSIONER IS AUTHORIZED AND DIRECTED TO ESTABLISH AND MAIN- TAIN A PUBLIC EDUCATION PROGRAM TO INFORM THE PUBLIC AND APPROPRIATE PROFESSIONAL DISCIPLINES OF THE POTENTIAL HEALTH EFFECTS OF CONSUMING WATER THAT DOES NOT MEET STATE DRINKING WATER STANDARDS. AS PART OF THIS EDUCATION PROGRAM, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PREPARE MATERIALS TO EDUCATE CONSUMERS WHO OBTAIN DRINKING WATER FROM PRIVATE WATER SUPPLIES ON THE IMPORTANCE OF REGULARLY TESTING FOR CONTAMINATION. (A) SUCH EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO: (I) INFORMATION ON POTENTIAL CONTAMINANTS INCLUDING: COLIFORM BACTE- RIA, CHLORIDES, SODIUM, ARSENIC, NITRATES, IRON, MANGANESE, LEAD, PH, VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS FOR WHICH MAXIMUM CONTAMINANT LEVELS HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO PUBLIC HEALTH REGULATIONS, VINYL CHLORIDE, MTBE, AND RADON; (II) AN EXPLANATION THAT CONTAMINATION OF GROUNDWATER CAN OCCUR FROM MIGRATION OF CONTAMINANTS THAT MAY NOT YET HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED. FURTHER, IT SHOULD BE EMPHASIZED THAT CONTAMINATED WATER DOES NOT NECES- SARILY RESULT IN OBVIOUS ODORS OR COLOR CHANGES IN DRINKING WATER AND THAT THE ONLY WAY TO ENSURE THAT WATER MEETS STATE DRINKING WATER STAND- ARDS IS TO HAVE IT TESTED BY A STATE CERTIFIED LABORATORY; EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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