STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9660--A IN ASSEMBLY March 24, 2016 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LIFTON, ORTIZ, BENEDETTO, ABINANTI, SIMON, CAHILL, PEOPLES-STOKES, LINARES, BLAKE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, BUCHWALD, O'DONNELL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public health law, the education law and the social services law, in relation to water testing in school buildings, child day care centers and day care homes The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2 1110 to read as follows: 3 § 1110. Water testing in school buildings, child day care centers and 4 day care homes. 1. As used in this section, the following terms shall 5 have the following meanings: 6 (a) "water districts" means all community water systems and non-tran- 7 sient, non-community water systems serving fifteen or more service 8 connections or serving twenty-five or more persons; and 9 (b) "lead action level" means the concentration of lead in more than 10 ten percent of one liter first-draw tap water samples collected during 11 any monitoring period exceeds 0.015 milligrams per liter. 12 2. All water districts shall test the water in each school building, 13 child day care center, group family day care home and family day care 14 home, as defined in section three hundred ninety of the social services 15 law, within the water district for lead contamination every three years. 16 3. If the lead action level is exceeded at a school building, child 17 day care center, group family day care home or family day care home, the 18 water district shall notify the child day care center, group family day 19 care home, family day care home or the school district in which the 20 school building is located. The parents of children attending such 21 affected school building, child day care center, group family day care 22 home or family day care home shall be notified and a remediation plan 23 shall be developed in accordance with section four hundred nine-l of the EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14747-02-6