HR 1540 · 109th Congress 2005–2007, ended

Drinking Water Standards Preservation Act of 2005

Introduced Apr 8, 2005 Originated House Sponsor Gary G. Miller R-CA

Fact sheet

Latest action · May 10, 2005 Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedApr 8, 2005
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Drinking Water Standards Preservation Act of 2005 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to establish liability standards for a public water system for damages arising from injury (including personal injury, death, or property damage) allegedly caused by delivery of contaminated water containing either regulated or unregulated contaminants.

Requires for both regulated and unregulated contaminants that the plaintiff establish that there is substantial scientific evidence that the kind of injury alleged could be caused by such substance in the amounts present and that the substance did, in fact, cause the injury.

Requires proof: (1) in the case of regulated contaminants, that the water system violated the regulation, was negligent and that the violation caused the injury; and (2) in the case of unregulated contaminants, that the water system knew or should have known that the substance at that level was likely to cause such injury and that it was feasible to remove the contaminant to a safe level.

Directs the court to make determinations regarding proof requirements in a special pretrial proceeding and to give binding effect to any findings of fact, conclusions of law, or determinations of State agencies exercising primary enforcement authority.

Cosponsors 5

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Apr 8, 2005 to Jun 16, 2005, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-CAKen CalvertOriginalApr 8, 2005
R-CADana RohrabacherApr 13, 2005
D-MSGene TaylorApr 14, 2005
R-PAJoseph R. PittsJun 9, 2005
R-ALRobert B. AderholtJun 16, 2005

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. May 10, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
  2. Apr 22, 2005Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
  3. Apr 8, 2005Introduced in House
  4. Apr 8, 2005Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Water Resources Development.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Apr 8, 2005Introduced in House

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