Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2019
Latest action · Mar 27, 2019 Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
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.
- IntroducedFeb 28, 2019
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2019
This bill provides funding for several programs related to controlling water pollution or protecting drinking water. Specifically, it establishes a Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Trust Fund, increases the corporate income tax rate to 24.5% to provide revenues for such programs, revises requirements concerning the clean water state revolving fund (SRF) and the drinking water SRF, and creates or reauthorizes several grant programs for water infrastructure. For example, the Environmental Protection Agency must establish a grant program for repairing, replacing, or upgrading septic tanks and drainage fields. In addition, the bill makes permanent a grant program for household water well systems in rural areas. It also increases the amount of appropriations for grant programs, including a program that awards grants to prevent lead from contaminating drinking water fountains in schools and day care facilities.
Cosponsors 87
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 28, 2019 to Jun 29, 2020, with 43 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NY | Adriano Espaillat | Original | Feb 28, 2019 |
| D-FL | Alcee L. Hastings | Original | Feb 28, 2019 |
| D-MI | Andy Levin | Original | Feb 28, 2019 |
| D-MD | Anthony G. Brown | Original | Feb 28, 2019 |
| D-NY | Antonio Delgado | Original | Feb 28, 2019 |
| D-MA | Ayanna Pressley | Original | Feb 28, 2019 |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Original | Feb 28, 2019 |
| D-NJ | Bonnie Watson Coleman | Original | Feb 28, 2019 |
| D-NY | Carolyn B. Maloney | Original | Feb 28, 2019 |
| D-ME | Chellie Pingree | Original | Feb 28, 2019 |
| D-IL | Cheri Bustos | Original | Feb 28, 2019 |
| D-MI | Daniel T. Kildee | Original | Feb 28, 2019 |
| D-FL | Debbie Wasserman Schultz | Original | Feb 28, 2019 |
| D-NM | Debra A. Haaland | Original | Feb 28, 2019 |
| D-TX | Eddie Bernice Johnson | Original | Feb 28, 2019 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 27, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
- Mar 1, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.
- Mar 1, 2019Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
- Feb 28, 2019Introduced in House
- Feb 28, 2019Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Agriculture, 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.
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 611 | Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2019 | Related bill | Feb 28, 2019 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.
- Buy American requirements
- Congressional oversight
- Environmental Protection
- Environmental regulatory procedures
- Government information and archives
- Government lending and loan guarantees
- Government studies and investigations
- Government trust funds
- Labor-management relations
- Metals
- Public contracts and procurement
- Public participation and lobbying
- Public utilities and utility rates
- Racial and ethnic relations
- Rural conditions and development
- Solid waste and recycling
- State and local finance
- Water quality
- Water use and supply
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 28, 2019Introduced in House
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