SB 258

ON APRIL 7, 2025, THE HOUSE SUBSTITUTED SENATE BILL 258, ADOPTED AMENDMENT #1, AND PASSED SENATE BILL 258, AS AMENDED. AMENDMENT #1 rewrites this bill. Under this amendment, i f a point-of-entry treatment device is installed in a facility solely to soften hard water and, because of the installation of such a device, the house, building, or complex of buildings meets the definition of a public water system under the Tennessee Safe Drinking Water Act of 1983 , then t he facility constitutes a consecutive system, and is required to monitor the influent and finished water for hardness, alkalinity, and pH on a quarterly basis, and sodium on an annual basis, and report the results to TDEC within 15 days of the end of the r eporting period. For purposes of this amendment: (1) "Consecutive system"" means a public water system that receives some or all of the system's finished water from one or more wholesale systems. Delivery may be through a direct connection or through the distribution system of one or more consecutive systems; and (2) ""Point-of-entry treatment device"" means a treatment device applied to the drinking water entering a house, building, or complex of buildings under single ownership for the purpose of red ucing contaminants in the drinking water distributed throughout the house, building, or complex of buildings."