Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2019

Bill: 116-hr-1417
Sponsor: Rep. Lawrence, Brenda L. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2019-02-28 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Buy American requirements
Congressional oversight
Environmental regulatory procedures
Government information and archives
Government lending and loan guarantees
Government studies and investigations
Government trust funds
Labor-management relations
Metals
Public contracts and procurement
Public participation and lobbying
Public utilities and utility rates
Racial and ethnic relations
Rural conditions and development
Solid waste and recycling
State and local finance
Water quality
Water use and supply

Summary:
action_date: 2019-02-28
text: 

Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2019

 
This bill provides funding for several programs related to controlling water pollution or protecting drinking water. Specifically, it establishes a Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Trust Fund, increases the corporate income tax rate to 24.5% to provide revenues for such programs, revises requirements concerning the clean water state revolving fund (SRF) and the drinking water SRF, and creates or reauthorizes several grant programs for water infrastructure. For example, the Environmental Protection Agency must establish a grant program for repairing, replacing, or upgrading septic tanks and drainage fields. In addition, the bill makes permanent a grant program for household water well systems in rural areas. It also increases the amount of appropriations for grant programs, including a program that awards grants to prevent lead from contaminating drinking water fountains in schools and day care facilities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-03-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
action_date: 2019-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.
action_date: 2019-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2019-02-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Agriculture, 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.
action_date: 2019-02-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Agriculture, 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.
action_date: 2019-02-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Agriculture, 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.
action_date: 2019-02-28
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Agriculture, 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.
action_date: 2019-02-28
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-02-28
text: Introduced in House