Bill > A572

Introduced Session

This bill would require the Department of Education (DOE) and the Department of Children and Families (DCF), within one year after the bill is enacted into law, to establish online reporting systems for schools and child care centers to report lead testing results electronically. In July 2016, the State Board of Education adopted regulations requiring every school in the State to test for lead in drinking water, and in January 2017, the DCF adopted regulations requiring each child care facility in the State to test for lead in drinking water. Under the bill's provisions, each school and child care center that was previously required to test for lead, pursuant to law or regulation, would be required, within 90 days after the DOE and DCF establish the online reporting systems required by the bill, to submit or resubmit the lead testing results, as well as any other required information, via those online reporting systems. The DOE and the DCF would be required to compile the test results on their respective Internet websites for access by the public. The bill also would require the DOE and the DCF, within two years after the bill is enacted into law and in consultation with the Department of Environmental Protection, to prepare and submit a report to the Governor and the Legislature outlining the extent of lead contamination in the drinking water of schools and child care centers, the associated need for assistance with remediation activities, and recommendations for how the State can assist schools and child care centers with remediating lead in drinking water.

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Clinton Calabrese (D)*,  Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (D)*,  Sterley Stanley (D)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee (on 01/09/2024)

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