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Committee adopts amendment but fails to pass bill allowing bond funding to replace lead service lines from meter to house
Summary
Lawmakers considered House Bill 14‑62, which would let municipalities and water utilities issue bonds to pay to replace lead service lines from the water meter to private houses to comply with an EPA mandate; members adopted an amendment clarifying ‘meter to house’ language, but the bill failed on a voice vote.
Chair opened consideration of House Bill 14‑62, introduced by Representative Stetson Painter (R‑Dist. 3), telling members a fiscal impact accompanies the bill. Painter said the measure responds to an October 2024 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) mandate requiring replacement of lead service lines and would authorize water utilities and municipal authorities to issue bonds to pay to replace lead lines that run from the water meter to a private residence.
Painter told the committee he and sponsors had circulated an amendment “just clarifying that lead pipes that it connects the water meter, water main and other things to individual customers,” and later described the amendment as…
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