Requires disclosure of lead drinking water hazards to tenants of residential units; prohibits landlords from obstructing replacement of lead service lines; concerns testing of certain property for lead drinking water hazards.*

Enforcement authority for violations was transferred from the Commissioner of Community Affairs to the Commissioner of Environmental Protection. The Commissioner of Environmental Protection now issues written violation notices and imposes penalties, and enforcement is explicitly directed to be carried out in Superior Court.

A new subsection 6(b) allows a public community water system or customer affected by another person's violation to file a complaint with the Department of Environmental Protection, creating a private right to report violations.

Section 6(a) now explicitly states that 'any person, including, but not limited to a public community water system' can be found in violation, making clear that water systems themselves are subject to penalties under the bill.

Two additional co-sponsors (Senators Burgess and O'Scanlon) were added to the bill.

The standalone definition of 'lead-safe service line' was removed from Section 1. In Sections 3(b)(2) and 4(b)(2), the exemption language was changed from 'serviced by a lead-safe service line' to 'serviced by a service line that has been determined by the public community water system, pursuant to P.L.2021, c.183 (C.58:12A-40 et seq.), not to be a lead service line.' This ties the exemption directly to the formal determination process rather than a defined term.

Section 5(c)(2) was revised to clarify that obstruction of lead service line replacement means specifically 'denying access to the property owner-side of the lead service line.' The prior example language ('such as') was removed and replaced with a definitive definition of the obstructive act.

Section 3(c) now requires the Department of Community Affairs to prepare the model disclosure statement 'in consultation with the Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Health,' adding interagency coordination that was not in the introduced version.

Section 2(b)(1) added clarifying language that the New Jersey Register publication should indicate 'that the educational materials have been developed or updated.'

New subsection 3(f) explicitly states that a licensee of the New Jersey Real Estate Commission is not required to provide the lead in drinking water disclosure statement to a tenant when the licensee is not the landlord of the property. This clarifies that the disclosure obligation rests with the landlord, not necessarily with a real estate agent facilitating the lease.