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Bill Text

CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
HOUSE BILL 1615
Chapter 65, Laws of 2025
69th Legislature
2025 Regular Session
WATER SYSTEM CLASSIFICATION—NUMBER OF PEOPLE SERVED
EFFECTIVE DATE: April 16, 2025
Passed by the House March 10, 2025
Yeas 95 Nays 0
LAURIE JINKINS
Speaker of the House of
Representatives
Passed by the Senate April 4, 2025
Yeas 49 Nays 0
DENNY HECK
President of the Senate
CERTIFICATE
I, Bernard Dean, Chief Clerk of the
House of Representatives of the
State of Washington, do hereby
certify that the attached is HOUSE
BILL 1615 as passed by the House of
Representatives and the Senate on
the dates hereon set forth.
BERNARD DEAN
Chief Clerk
Approved April 16, 2025 10:47 AM FILED
April 16, 2025
BOB FERGUSON
Governor of the State of Washington
Secretary of State
State of Washington

AN ACT Relating to increasing consistency in the classifications 1
of water systems; amending RCW 70A.125.010 and 70A.125.130; and 2
declaring an emergency.3
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:4
Sec. 1. RCW 70A.125.010 and 2020 c 20 s 1353 are each amended to 5
read as follows:6
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following 7
definitions apply throughout this chapter:8
(1) "Area-wide waivers" means a waiver granted by the department 9
as a result of a geographically based testing program meeting 10
required provisions of the federal safe drinking water act.11
(2) "Department" means the department of health.12
(3) "Federal safe drinking water act" means the federal safe 13
drinking water act, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 300f et seq., as now in effect or 14
hereafter amended.15
(4)(a) "Group A public water system" means a public water system 16
with ((fifteen)) 15 or more service connections, regardless of the 17
number of people; or a system serving an average of ((twenty-five)) 18
25 or more people per day for ((sixty)) 60 or more days within a 19
calendar year, regardless of the number of service connections; or a 20
HOUSE BILL 1615
Passed Legislature - 2025 Regular Session
State of Washington 69th Legislature 2025 Regular Session
By Representative Caldier
Read first time 01/27/25. Referred to Committee on Environment &
Energy.
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system serving ((one thousand)) 1,000 or more people for two or more 1
consecutive days.2
(b) A default number of people served per connection may not be 3
used to calculate the average number of people served for purposes of 4
(a) of this subsection, where such default number would cause a water 5
system that would otherwise be classified as a group B water system 6
to be classified as a group A water system.7
(5) "Group B public water system" means a public water system 8
that does not meet the definition of a group A public water system.9
(6) "Local board of health" means the city, town, county, or 10
district board of health.11
(7) "Local health jurisdiction" means an entity created under 12
chapter 70.05, 70.08, or 70.46 RCW, which provides public health 13
services to persons within the area.14
(8) "Local health officer" means the legally qualified physician 15
who has been appointed as the health officer for the city, town, 16
county, or district public health department.17
(9) "Order" means a written direction to comply with a provision 18
of the regulations adopted under RCW 43.20.050(2) (a) and (b) or 19
70A.120.050 or to take an action or a series of actions to comply 20
with the regulations.21
(10) "Person" includes, but is not limited to, natural persons, 22
municipal corporations, governmental agencies, firms, companies, 23
mutual or cooperative associations, institutions, and partnerships. 24
It also means the authorized agents of any such entities.25
(11) "Public health emergency" means a declaration by an 26
authorized health official of a situation in which either illness, or 27
exposure known to cause illness, is occurring or is imminent.28
(12) "Public water system" means any system, excluding a system 29
serving only one single-family residence and a system with four or 30
fewer connections all of which serve residences on the same farm, 31
providing water for human consumption through pipes or other 32
constructed conveyances, including any collection, treatment, 33
storage, or distribution facilities under control of the purveyor and 34
used primarily in connection with the system; and collection or 35
pretreatment storage facilities not under control of the purveyor but 36
primarily used in connection with the system, including:37
(a) Any collection, treatment, storage, and distribution 38
facilities under control of the purveyor and used primarily in 39
connection with such system; and40
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(b) Any collection or pretreatment storage facilities not under 1
control of the purveyor which are primarily used in connection with 2
such system.3
(13) "Purveyor" means any agency or subdivision of the state or 4
any municipal corporation, firm, company, mutual or cooperative 5
association, institution, partnership, or person or any ot