Title: To require lead testing in Department of Defense Education Activity schools, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This bill requires the Department of Defense to test for, and mitigate, the presence of lead-based paint and lead in drinking water in schools that are (1) owned or operated by the Department of Defense Education Activity; or (2) providing educational programs pursuant to agreements to provide elementary and secondary education to military dependents, domestically or overseas.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2257 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2257

  To require lead testing in Department of Defense Education Activity 
                    schools, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 10, 2019

Mr. Kildee (for himself and Ms. Speier) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition 
      to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require lead testing in Department of Defense Education Activity 
                    schools, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. LEAD TESTING IN DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE EDUCATION ACTIVITY 
              SCHOOLS.

    (a) Lead-Based Paint and Lead in Drinking Water.--
            (1) Testing required.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
        ensure that all covered schools are tested for--
                    (A) the presence of lead-based paint; and
                    (B) the presence of lead in drinking water.
            (2) Standards.--In carrying out paragraph (1), the 
        Secretary shall ensure that tests are performed in accordance 
        with the guidance document and testing protocol published by 
        the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under 
        section 1464(b) of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 300j-
        24(b)).
            (3) Notification.--Not later than one day after a test is 
        carried out pursuant to this subsection in a covered school, 
        the Secretary shall notify of the results of the test--
                    (A) the parents or legal guardians of students 
                attending such covered school; and
                    (B) the employees of such covered school.
    (b) Lead Mitigation.--
            (1) Activities required.--The Secretary shall undertake 
        activities necessary to mitigate the presence of lead in a 
        covered school in which lead is detected as a result of a test 
        performed pursuant to subsection (a).
            (2) Standards.--In carrying out paragraph (1), the 
        Secretary shall ensure mitigation is undertaken in accordance 
        with the requirements of Department of Defense Education 
        Activity Administrative Instruction 6055.01 (or successor 
        instruction).
    (c) Timing.--The Secretary shall--
            (1) commence all actions required pursuant to subsection 
        (a) not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of 
        this Act; and
            (2) complete all actions required pursuant to subsections 
        (a) and (b) not later than two years after the date of the 
        enactment of this Act.
    (d) Report.--Not later than one year after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the congressional 
defense committees a report containing information on activities 
carried out under this section, including--
            (1) the number of covered schools tested for lead-based 
        paint;
            (2) the number of covered schools tested for lead in 
        drinking water;
            (3) for each covered school at which testing was performed, 
        the results of the testing;
            (4) for each covered school at which testing was not 
        performed, an explanation for the failure to perform the 
        testing; and
            (5) for each covered school in which lead was detected, the 
        activities undertaken to mitigate the presence of lead.
    (e) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) The term ``congressional defense committees'' has the 
        meaning given that term in section 101(a) of title 10, United 
        States Code.
            (2) The term ``covered school'' means--
                    (A) a school owned or operated by the Department of 
                Defense Education Activity; or
                    (B) a school with which the Secretary has entered 
                into a contract or otherwise entered into an 
                arrangement to provide educational programs under--
                            (i) section 2164 of title 10, United States 
                        Code; or
                            (ii) section 1402 of the Defense 
                        Dependents' Education Act of 1978 (20 U.S.C. 
                        921).
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