Water: schoolsites: lead testing.

Assembly Member Connolly's water safety legislation establishes new protocols for lead testing in elementary schools and childcare facilities, requiring community water systems to document and report detailed information about their testing outreach efforts. The measure adds requirements for water systems to compile comprehensive data on facilities that accept or decline lead testing, including specific reasons for declining such as recent independent testing, existing quality programs, or post-2010 construction dates.

Under the bill's provisions, the State Water Resources Control Board must create a searchable online database by June 2028 containing all submitted lead testing information. The database will highlight results exceeding five parts per billion and clearly indicate when samples surpass federal action levels. Community water systems must then incorporate statements about this database and direct links to it in their annual consumer confidence reports by December 2028.

The legislation mandates that facilities declining lead testing select from standardized explanatory options, such as participation in other water quality programs, use of certified filtration systems, or ongoing facility modernization. The State Board retains authority to expand this list of acceptable reasons for declining testing. Water systems that have received federal testing requirement waivers maintain those exemptions for applicable facilities.