Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2019
- Last Action
- 3/27/2019
Actions
- 2019-03-27Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
- 2019-03-01Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change.
- 2019-03-01Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
- 2019-02-28Referred 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.
- 2019-02-28Referred 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.
- 2019-02-28Referred 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.
- 2019-02-28Referred 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.
- 2019-02-28Introduced in House
- 2019-02-28Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2019-02-28 (00)
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.
Cosponsors (20)
- Ro Khanna (D-CA)
- Pramila Jayapal (D-WA)
- Mark Pocan (D-WI)
- Matt Cartwright (D-PA)
- JANICE SCHAKOWSKY (D-IL)
- Jared Huffman (D-CA)
- Adriano Espaillat (D-NY)
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)
- Gwen Moore (D-WI)
- Ilhan Omar (D-MN)
- Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ)
- Peter Welch (D-VT)
- ELEANOR NORTON (D-DC)
- SHEILA JACKSON LEE (D-TX)
- Steve Cohen (D-TN)
- Jamie Raskin (D-MD)
- Debra Haaland (D-NM)
- BARBARA LEE (D-CA)
- Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA)
- Andy Levin (D-MI)
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
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