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Representative Harry Warren(R)
Representative Donny Lambeth(R)
Representative Gale Adcock, FNP(D)
Representative Larry W. Potts(R)
Representative John Autry(D)
Representative Cynthia Ball(D)
Representative Mary Belk(D)
Representative Cecil Brockman(D)
Representative Deb Butler(D)
Representative Becky Carney(D)
Representative Jerry Carter(R)
Representative Ashton Wheeler Clemmons(D)
Representative Linda Cooper-Suggs(D)
Representative Carla D. Cunningham(D)
Representative Allison A. Dahle(D)
Representative Brian Farkas(D)
Representative Susan C. Fisher(D)
Representative Bobby Hanig(R)
Representative Pricey Harrison(D)
Representative Zack Hawkins(D)
Representative Rachel Hunt(D)
Representative Howard J. Hunter, III(D)
Representative Verla Insko(D)
Representative Carolyn G. Logan(D)
Representative Nasif Majeed(D)
Representative Graig R. Meyer(D)
Representative Ben T. Moss, Jr.(R)
Representative Howard Penny, Jr.(R)
Representative Larry G. Pittman(R)
Representative James Roberson(D)
Representative Kandie D. Smith(D)
Representative Raymond E. Smith, Jr.(D)
Representative Evelyn Terry(D)
Representative Brian Turner(D)
Representative Julie von Haefen(D)
Representative Shelly Willingham(D)
Representative Michael H. Wray(D)
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Ch. SL 2021-69House | 2021-07-02Signed by Gov. 7/2/2021House | 2021-07-02Pres. To Gov. 6/23/2021House | 2021-06-23RatifiedHouse | 2021-06-22Ordered EnrolledSenate | 2021-06-21Passed 3rd ReadingSenate | 2021-06-21Passed 2nd ReadingSenate | 2021-06-21Placed On Cal For 06/21/2021Senate | 2021-06-16Withdrawn From CalSenate | 2021-06-16Reptd FavSenate | 2021-06-15Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the SenateSenate | 2021-06-09Reptd FavSenate | 2021-06-09Re-ref to Health Care. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the SenateSenate | 2021-06-01Withdrawn From ComSenate | 2021-06-01Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the SenateSenate | 2021-05-10Passed 1st ReadingSenate | 2021-05-10Regular Message Received From HouseSenate | 2021-05-10Regular Message Sent To SenateHouse | 2021-05-07Passed 3rd ReadingHouse | 2021-05-06Passed 2nd ReadingHouse | 2021-05-06Placed On Cal For 05/06/2021House | 2021-05-05Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)House | 2021-05-05Reptd FavHouse | 2021-05-05Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the HouseHouse | 2021-05-05Withdrawn From ComHouse | 2021-05-05Re-ref Com On HealthHouse | 2021-04-20Reptd Fav Com SubstituteHouse | 2021-04-20Ref to the Com on Environment, if favorable, Health, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the HouseHouse | 2021-03-15Passed 1st ReadingHouse | 2021-03-15FiledHouse | 2021-03-11
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130A (Chapters); 130A-131.7
130A-131.9C
130A-313 (Sections)
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H272: Revise Health Standard for Lead. Latest Version
Session: 2021 - 2022
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2021
SESSION LAW 2021-69
HOUSE BILL 272
AN ACT to Update the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Law to Ensure that Young Children Are Not Exposed to Hazardous Lead in Drinking Water.
Whereas, the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program has been extremely effective in reducing rates of child lead poisoning in the State; and
Whereas, no amount of lead in water is safe for young children, with even low concentration levels associated with lowered IQ, increased aggression, and the occurrence of ADHD; and
Whereas, North Carolina's lead hazard threshold for drinking water consumed by young children, as set forth in the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention statute, is 15 parts per billion, a standard set more than two decades ago when the permanent harmful effects of lead at lower concentrations were not understood; and
Whereas, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the American Academy of Pediatrics now recommend that the action level be set as close to zero as possible; and
Whereas, lowering the definition of a lead hazard in young children's drinking water in the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention statute from 15 parts per billion to 10 parts per billion would extend lead exposure protection to 30,000 young children in child care settings, resulting in measurable benefits to children and society in the form of reduced crime, health care cost‑savings, special education cost‑savings, and avoided losses in lifetime earnings; and
Whereas, there is uniform support for this proposal in the health care and child care communities; and
Whereas, this proposal does not affect water utilities, which are regulated under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act and the Lead and Copper Rule; Now, therefore,
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 130A‑131.7(7) reads as rewritten:
(7) Lead poisoning hazard means any of the following:
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g. Any concentration of lead in drinking water equal to or greater than 15 10 parts per billion.
SECTION 2. G.S. 130A‑131.9C(i) reads as rewritten:
(i) All remediation plans shall require that the lead poisoning hazards be reduced to the following levels:
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(5) Fewer than 15 10 parts per billion for lead in drinking water.
SECTION 3. The Commission for Public Health shall adopt temporary and permanent rules to implement this act.
SECTION 4. Nothing in this act, or in rules adopted pursuant to Section 3 of this act, shall be construed to alter or amend requirements applicable to public water systems, as that term is defined under G.S. 130A‑313, under (i) Article 10 of this Chapter and rules adopted thereunder, (ii) the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, and (iii) the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Lead and Copper Rule under 40 C.F.R. Part 141, Subpart I.
SECTION 5. This act becomes effective on December 1, 2021.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 22nd day of June, 2021.
s/ Phil Berger
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
s/ Tim Moore
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Roy Cooper
Governor
Approved 11:56 a.m. this 2nd day of July, 2021