ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

57th Legislature, 2nd Regular Session

Majority Research Staff

Senate: NR 5-3-0-0 | Third Read 16-11-3-0-0

House: NREW DPA 5-3-0-0

☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal Note

SB 1445: water quality; testing; on-site

Sponsor: Senator Rogers, LD 7

Caucus & COW

Overview

Restricts the Director of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) from requiring a specified municipality to conduct bacteriological sampling more than four times per month. Outlines requirements for bacteriological sample testing and equipment.

History

ADEQ is designated as the state agency for all purposes of the federal Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act. ADEQ is authorized to take all actions necessary to administer and enforce these acts, including entering into contracts, grants and agreements, adopting, modifying or repealing rules and initiating administrative and judicial actions to secure for the state the benefits, rights and remedies of such acts (A.R.S. § 49-202).

The ADEQ's Water Quality Division preserves and bolsters the environment and public health through ensuring healthy drinking water if provided by public water systems. This is done via:

1)   regulation of the treatment and discharge of wastewater;

2)   controlling current and future sources of surface and groundwater pollution;

3)   monitoring and assessing the quality of surface and groundwater; and

4)   issuing permits to protect Arizona water from sources of pollution (ADEQ).

Provisions

1.   Restricts the ADEQ Director from requiring a municipality with a population between 1,000 and 10,000 persons that have aquifer protection permits, to conduct bacteriological sampling more than four times per month. (Sec. 1)

2.   Allows a city or town with a population between 1,000 and 10,000 persons to test bacteriological samples on-site with testing equipment approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. (Sec. 1, 2)

3.   Makes technical changes. (Sec. 2)

Amendments

Committee on Natural Resources, Energy & Water

1.   Strikes the restrictions on the maximum number of bacteriological tests that the ADEQ Director can require. 

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5.   Initials CW/RS                SB 1445

6.   3/25/2026  Page 0 Caucus & COW

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