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HB543 • 2025

Get the Lead Out of School Drinking Water Act; enact

Get the Lead Out of School Drinking Water Act; enact

Children Education
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Sponsor
Berry, Bryce
Last action
2025-02-24
Official status
House Second Readers
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The bill has passed both chambers and reached final enrollment according to metadata, but no effective date is listed.

Get the Lead Out of School Drinking Water Act

This bill requires schools and child care learning centers in Georgia to test their drinking water for lead, report results, create remediation plans if needed, and follow new rules.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires testing of drinking water in schools and child care learning centers for lead contamination.
  • Provides for notice about the tests and reporting of the results.
  • Creates a requirement to make remediation plans when issues are found.
  • Establishes definitions, rules, and regulations related to these requirements.
  • Includes an exemption under certain conditions but prohibits waivers of the law.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Schools
  • Child care learning centers

Limits and Unknowns

  • The specific details on how testing must be done are not listed in the summary text.
  • The exact conditions for the exemption mentioned in the bill are not described here.
  • The effective date when these rules begin is not provided in the source text.

Bill History

  1. 2025-02-24 Georgia General Assembly

    House Second Readers

Official Summary Text

Get the Lead Out of School Drinking Water Act; enact