18A:33-8.2 School Lead Filters program.
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2. a. No later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this act, the Commissioner of Education shall establish a School Lead Filters program to provide grants, subject to available appropriations, for the purchase and installation of point-of-use filtered bottle-filling stations and filtered faucets in public schools. Public schools may apply to the Department of Education for a grant in a form and manner as determined by the commissioner.
b. The commissioner shall advertise the availability of the grants to public schools and shall publish information about the program on the department's Internet website.
c. In awarding grants pursuant to this section, the commissioner shall give priority to public schools that demonstrate significant water quality issues, as evidenced by test results, reports from the Department of Environmental Protection, or reliable data sources indicating elevated levels of lead and other contaminants in drinking water and to public schools that have not already installed point-of-use filtered bottle-filling stations or filtered faucets.
L.2025, c.76, s.2.