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Read. Follow. Verify.Pennsylvania House Bill 341 Requires Lead Filters in School Drinking Water and Establishes $30 Million Grant Fund
Last action · January 27, 2025: Referred to EDUCATION, Jan. 27, 2025Sponsors: Roni Green and 33 others
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What This Bill Would Do
Pennsylvania school entities must equip all drinking water outlets with certified lead-reducing filters and replace uncertified fountains by January 1, 2027. The measure establishes a $30 million interfund transfer into a newly created Safe Schools Drinking Water Fund to provide annual grants for filter installations and fountain replacements.
Local school districts must fund, install, maintain, and report on certified water filters across all buildings while meeting strict lead-leaching standards for new fixtures, backed by a $10 million annual grant pool prioritizing older facilities and pre-kindergarten programs.
- The Public School Code of 1949 serves as the primary statutory framework governing public education administration, funding, and facilities across Pennsylvania. context
- Public school drinking water safety and lead contamination have increasingly drawn legislative attention due to health risks associated with aging plumbing infrastructure in older school buildings. context
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
School entities
School districts, charter schools, and private schools must install certified filters, replace unfiltered fountains, adopt maintenance schedules, submit compliance reports, and post public information online.
Students and staff
Individuals attending or working in school buildings gain access to drinking water outlets equipped with certified lead-reduction filters and bottle-filling stations.
Department of Environmental Protection
The department must issue grant guidelines, develop applications, promulgate implementation rules, and review school compliance reports in consultation with other state agencies.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
Currently in committee. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Floor Vote.
Procedural history
1 action- Jan 27, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to EDUCATION, Jan. 27, 2025
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Interfund Transfer for Safe Water
The bill moves $30 million directly from the General Fund into a newly created separate Treasury fund dedicated solely to school drinking water grants.
Mandatory Lead Mitigation Deadlines
Establishes a hard enforcement mechanism requiring compliance reports by August 2025 and complete filter installations by January 2027.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance85How much this matters to a regular citizen
- Controversy20Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz45Current news / social attention level
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