HR 852 · 116th Congress 2019–2021, ended

Get the Lead Out of Schools Act

Introduced Jan 29, 2019 Originated House Sponsor Brenda L. Lawrence D-MI

Latest action · Jan 29, 2019 Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Progress

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IntroducedJan 29, 2019
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Get the Lead Out of Schools Act

This bill requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to (1) test for lead in drinking water at schools and day care facilities, and (2) create a grant program for lead testing and remediation efforts in schools and day care facilities.

Specifically, the EPA must promulgate a national primary drinking water regulation for schools and day care facilities that

establishes a lead action level (a level of lead in drinking water that triggers additional actions to control lead contamination) that is no more than 15 parts per billion;
directs each public water system to sample for lead in the drinking water at schools and day care facilities if the EPA determines there is a risk that the lead in the drinking water will meet or exceed the action level; and
requires public water systems that serve schools or day cares that meet or exceed the action level to notify the local educational agency, the relevant local health agencies, the municipality, and the state as soon as practicable, but no later than 24 hours after the system receives the sampling results.

The EPA must also establish a grant program for (1) testing drinking water in schools and day care facilities for lead contamination, and (2) remediating lead contamination in such drinking water by replacing lead pipes and certain plumbing materials with lead-free material.

Cosponsors 60

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 29, 2019 to Nov 17, 2020; 38 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-IN	André Carson	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-NH	Ann M. Kuster	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-MS	Bennie G. Thompson	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-PA	Brendan F. Boyle	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-LA	Cedric L. Richmond	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-IL	Cheri Bustos	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-MI	Daniel T. Kildee	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-FL	Darren Soto	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-FL	Frederica S. Wilson	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-NY	Grace Meng	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-WI	Gwen Moore	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-MN	Ilhan Omar	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-MA	James P. McGovern	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-MD	Jamie Raskin	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-VA	Jennifer Wexton	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-CA	John Garamendi	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-FL	Kathy Castor	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-CA	Katie Hill	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-CA	Lucille Roybal-Allard	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-WI	Mark Pocan	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-IL	Mike Quigley	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-NY	Sean Patrick Maloney	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-MA	Seth Moulton	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-TN	Steve Cohen	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-OH	Tim Ryan	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-FL	Val Butler Demings	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke	Original	Jan 29, 2019
D-NC	Alma S. Adams		Feb 5, 2019
D-MA	Ayanna Pressley		Feb 5, 2019
D-NJ	Bonnie Watson Coleman		Feb 5, 2019
D-NC	G. K. Butterfield		Feb 5, 2019
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		Feb 5, 2019
D-SC	James E. Clyburn		Feb 5, 2019
D-OH	Marcia L. Fudge		Feb 5, 2019
D-IL	Robin L. Kelly		Feb 5, 2019
D-GA	Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.		Feb 5, 2019
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		Feb 5, 2019
D-NV	Steven Horsford		Feb 5, 2019
D-ME	Jared F. Golden		Feb 14, 2019
D-CA	Jerry McNerney		Feb 14, 2019
D-CA	Barbara Lee		Mar 18, 2019
D-ME	Chellie Pingree		Mar 26, 2019
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer		Apr 25, 2019
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		Sep 6, 2019
D-IL	Lauren Underwood		Sep 6, 2019
D-VA	Abigail Davis Spanberger		Dec 3, 2019
D-VA	Elaine G. Luria		Dec 11, 2019
D-PA	Matt Cartwright		Feb 26, 2020
D-CA	Grace F. Napolitano		Nov 17, 2020

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Energy and Commerce Committee	Referred Jan 29, 2019

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jan 29, 2019Introduced in House
Jan 29, 2019Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18: To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 165, no. 18, January 29, 2019, page H1284.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
HR 6951	Get the Lead Out of Schools Act	Reintroduction of	Sep 27, 2018

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend the Safe Drinking Water Act to address lead contamination in school drinking water.
Short Title(s) as Introduced: Get the Lead Out of Schools Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Environmental Protection.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jan 29, 2019Introduced in House

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