Extends the lead free requirement to plumbing fittings and fixtures and adopts the lead free standard in the National Sanitation Foundation Standard 61, section 9, for systems providing water for human consumption. (HB654 HD1)

A BILL FOR AN ACT

SECTION 1. Section 340E-7, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (i) to read as follows:

"(i) No person shall install or repair any public water system or any plumbing in a residential or nonresidential facility providing water for human consumption [which] that is connected to a public water system with any pipe, solder, [or] flux, plumbing fittings, or fixtures that [is] are not lead free. "Lead free" with respect to solders and flux means containing not more than 0.2 per cent lead [and], with respect to pipes and pipe fittings means containing not more than 8.0 per cent lead[.], and with respect to plumbing fittings and fixtures means those in compliance with National Sanitation Foundation Standard 61, section 9. This subsection shall not apply to leaded joints necessary for the repair of cast iron pipes."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.