HOUSE BILL No. 5120

December 3, 2015, Introduced by Reps. Neeley, Phelps, Chirkun, Lane, Robinson, Brunner, Santana, Kesto, Callton, Plawecki, Singh, Faris, Banks, Chang, Geiss, Hovey-Wright, Love, LaVoy, Durhal, Garrett, Greig, Gay-Dagnogo, Townsend, Guerra, Yanez, Derek Miller, Schor, Liberati, Kosowski, Zemke, Wittenberg, Vaupel and Smiley and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 399, entitled

 

"Safe drinking water act,"

 

by amending section 19 (MCL 325.1019).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 19. (1) If water delivered by or the operation of a

 

public water supply is found not to be in compliance with the state

 

drinking water standards, the department shall require the supplier

 

of water to notify its users of the extent and nature of the

 

noncompliance. If the noncompliance involves a tier II violation

 

under R 323.1041 to R 323.1117 of the michigan administrative code,

 

the notice shall be provided to the users of the public water

 

supply within 72 hours after the department determines, based upon

 

sampling and testing, that a violation has occurred.

 

Notification of users shall be in a form and manner prescribed or

 


otherwise approved by the department.

 

     (2) Notification received pursuant to this section or

 

information obtained from the notification may not be used against

 

a person in a litigation, except a prosecution for perjury or for

 

giving a false statement.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.