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H.R. 5609: Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2018

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H.R. 5609: Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2018

115th Congress · introduced 2018-04-25 · Environmental Protection · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2018-04-25 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Exchanges, Energy, and Credit. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2018

Plain summary

Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2018 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) establish a Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Trust Fund; and (2) increase the corporate income tax rate to 24.5% to provide revenues for programs created by this bill. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Agriculture must allocate funds from the trust fund to clean water programs, drinking water programs, and water well systems. The bill amends Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly known as the Clean Water Act) to authorize the EPA to make grants for providing technical assistance for water and sanitation infrastructure and drinking water systems to rural and small municipalities and tribal governments. The EPA must establish a grant program for repairing, replacing, or upgrading septic tanks and drainage fields. The bill amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to make permanent a grant program for household water well systems in rural areas. The bill revises requirements concerning the clean water state revolving fund (SRF) and the drinking water SRF. The bill amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the EPA to make grants to local educational agencies for: (1) infrastructure to ensure that drinking water in schools is lead free, and (2) testing drinking water in schools for lead.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Water Affordability, Transparency, Equity, and Reliability Act of 2018

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5] · 53 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Ro Khanna (D-CA), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-CA), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Grace Meng (D-NY), Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Peter Welch (D-VT), Salud O. Carbajal (D-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA), Mike Quigley (D-IL), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), André Carson (D-IN), Hakeem S. Jeffries (D-NY), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Judy Chu (D-CA), Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Brendan F. Boyle (D-PA), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong115-hr5609 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115