Oct. 25, 2018
HARRISBURG—Legislation introduced by Rep. Alex Charlton (R-Delaware) to allow water and wastewater utilities to replace lateral pipelines leading to homes when there is a public health issue has been signed into law by Gov. Tom Wolf.
The governor also signed into law Charlton’s legislation to allow storage units to offer insurance.
“As I’ve outlined many times, our infrastructure is crumbling, and that includes our critical water and wastewater structures,” Charlton said.
In an effort to curb this problem, a bipartisan group of legislators wrote language into this year’s Fiscal Code allowing municipal authorities and municipal governments to replace homeowner’s water and sewer laterals when there is a public health concern such as lead.
“Unfortunately, left out of that was Pennsylvania’s regulated water and wastewater utilities that serve much of my district,” Charlton said.
To correct this, Charlton introduced
House Bill 2075, now
Act 120 of 2018, to allow regulated water and wastewater utilities to replace water laterals in communities that still have lead distribution pipes coming into their homes and sewer laterals that pose environmental hazards.
“This will allow these utilities to proactively be part of the solution to a growing public health issue,” Charlton said. “Lead service lines are of particular concern as the lead can find its way back into the service main putting at risk the entire water supply to lead contamination.”
Charlton’s other legislation,
House Bill 504, to allow self-storage proprietors to sell content insurance is now
Act 97 of 2018.
“Consumers and self-storage proprietors have asked for the ability to purchase and sell content insurance at the time of the rental contract agreement,” Charlton said. “Content insurance would cover the loss or damage of items put into storage by the individual renter.”
The policy would cover the loss or damage to personal property stored at the storage facility. The legislation also has consumer protection standards and disclosures that the proprietor must adhere to.
Representative Alex Charlton
165th District
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
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