Report Title:

Safe Drinking Water; Plumbing Fittings or Fixtures

 

Description:

Requires plumbing fittings and fixtures used in public water systems or plumbing that provides water for human consumption to be lead free in accordance with the National Sanitation Foundation Standard 61, section 9. (SD1)

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

654

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

H.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

S.D. 1


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to safe drinking water.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 340E-7, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (i) to read as follows:

"(i) No person shall install or repair any public water system or any plumbing in a residential or nonresidential facility providing water for human consumption which is connected to a public water system with any pipe, solder, [or] flux, plumbing fittings, or fixtures that [is] are not lead free. "Lead free" with respect to solders and flux means containing not more than 0.2 per cent lead [and], with respect to pipes and pipe fittings means containing not more than 8.0 per cent lead[.] and with respect to plumbing fittings and fixtures means those in compliance with National Sanitation Foundation Standard 61, section 9. This subsection shall not apply to leaded joints necessary for the repair of cast iron pipes."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.