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Regular Session, 2014
SENATE BILL NO. 75
BY SENATORS MORRELL AND BUFFINGTON
PUBLIC HEALTH. Provides relative to the minimum disinfectant residual levels of free
or total chlorine throughout public water systems. (8/1/14)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 40:4.15, relative to public water systems; to provide with respect to certain2
disinfectant levels; to provide for an annual report; and to provide for related matters.3
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:4
Section 1. R.S. 40:4.15 is hereby enacted to read as follows: 5
ยง4.15. Minimum disinfectant residual level of free or total chlorine throughout6
public water systems; rules and regulations; reporting7
A. The Department of Health and Hospitals, office of public health, shall8
promulgate rules and regulations pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act9
that require a public water system to maintain a minimum disinfectant level of10
at least 0.1 parts per million of free or total chlorine in the water being delivered11
to the distribution system, in finished water storage tanks, and in all points of12
the distribution.13
B. The department shall review such rules and regulations as necessary14
and shall submit an annual report as to the state of public water systems across15
Louisiana to the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare and the House16
Committee on Health and Welfare no later than February first of each year.17 SB NO. 75
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Christopher D. Adams.
DIGEST
Morrell (SB 75)
Proposed law provides the Department of Health and Hospitals, office of public health, shall
promulgate rules and regulations pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act that require
a public water system to maintain a minimum disinfectant level of at least 0.1 parts per
million of free or total chlorine in the water being delivered to the distribution system, in
finished water storage tanks, and in all points of the distribution.
Proposed law provides the department shall submit an annual report to the legislative health
and welfare committees, no later than February 1
st
of each year.
Effective August 1, 2014.
(Adds R.S. 40:4.15)
Summary of Amendments Adopted by Senate
Committee Amendments Proposed by Senate Committee on Health and Welfare to
the original bill
1. Provides a minimum disinfectant level of at least 0.1 parts per million of free
or total chlorine in the water being delivered to the distribution system, in
finished water storage tanks, and in all points of the distribution.