Assembly Bill A265A

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Enacts the "private well testing act"

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A265 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S119
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3-0315, En Con L; amd §§206 & 1100, add §1111, Pub Health L; add §468, RP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A4557
2011-2012: A667
2013-2014: A1040
2015-2016: A2295, S7297
2019-2020: A1103, S1854
2021-2022: S48
2023-2024: S1650

2017-A265 - Summary

Enacts the "private well testing act"; authorizes the department of health to promulgate rules and regulations to establish standards for the testing of drinking water from privately owned wells.

2017-A265 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    265
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 5, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. JAFFEE, COOK, MOSLEY, STECK, ARROYO, ABINANTI,
   FAHY, ROSENTHAL, OTIS, TITONE, BLAKE,  GALEF,  JENNE,  JEAN-PIERRE  --
   Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M. of A. DINOWITZ, ENGLEBRIGHT, GLICK, PERRY,
   RIVERA, SIMON, WALKER -- read once and referred to  the  Committee  on
   Environmental Conservation

 AN  ACT  to  amend the environmental conservation law, the public health
   law and the real property law, in relation to  enacting  the  "private
   well testing 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 "private well testing act".
   § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 3-0315 of the environmental conservation
 law,  as  added by section 1 of part C of chapter 1 of the laws of 2003,
 is amended to read as follows:
   1. The department shall create or modify an existing geographic infor-
 mation system, and maintain such system for purposes including, but  not
 limited  to,  incorporating information from remedial programs under its
 jurisdiction, and shall also incorporate  information  from  the  source
 water assessment program collected by the department of health, INFORMA-
 TION  COLLECTED  PURSUANT TO SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED ELEVEN OF THE PUBLIC
 HEALTH LAW, data from annual water supply statements  prepared  pursuant
 to  section  eleven hundred fifty-one of the public health law, informa-
 tion from the database pursuant to title fourteen of article twenty-sev-
 en of this chapter, and any  other  existing  data  regarding  soil  and
 groundwater  contamination currently gathered by the department, as well
 as data on contamination that  is  readily  available  from  the  United
 States geological survey and other sources determined appropriate by the
 department.
   §  3.  Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 31 to read as follows:

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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2017-A265A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S119
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3-0315, En Con L; amd §§206 & 1100, add §1111, Pub Health L; add §468, RP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A4557
2011-2012: A667
2013-2014: A1040
2015-2016: A2295, S7297
2019-2020: A1103, S1854
2021-2022: S48
2023-2024: S1650

2017-A265A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "private well testing act"; authorizes the department of health to promulgate rules and regulations to establish standards for the testing of drinking water from privately owned wells.

2017-A265A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  265--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 5, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. JAFFEE, COOK, MOSLEY, STECK, ARROYO, ABINANTI,
   FAHY, L. ROSENTHAL, OTIS, TITONE, BLAKE,  GALEF,  JENNE,  JEAN-PIERRE,
   D'URSO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DINOWITZ, ENGLEBRIGHT, GLICK,
   PERRY,  RIVERA, SIMON, WALKER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Environmental Conservation --  reported  and  referred  to  the
   Committee  on  Ways  and Means -- recommitted to the Committee on Ways
   and Means in accordance with Assembly Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the environmental conservation law, the public health
   law and the real property law, in relation to  enacting  the  "private
   well testing 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 "private well testing act".
   § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 3-0315 of the environmental conservation
 law,  as  amended  by  section 12 of part T of chapter 57 of the laws of
 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   1. The department in conjunction with the commissioner of health shall
 create and maintain a geographic information system, and associated data
 storage and analytical systems for purposes of collecting, streamlining,
 and visualizing integrated  data,  permits,  and  relevant  sites  about
 drinking  water  quality  including,  but  not limited to, incorporating
 supply well and monitoring well data, emerging contaminant  data,  water
 quality  monitoring  data,  pertinent data from remediation and landfill
 sites, permitted discharge locations and other  potential  contamination
 risks  to water supplies. Such system shall also incorporate information
 from the source water assessment program collected by the department  of
 health,  INFORMATION COLLECTED PURSUANT TO SECTION ELEVEN HUNDRED ELEVEN
 OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW,  data  from  annual  water  supply  statements
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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