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PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 233

                                                     SENATE BILL NO. 258

                                                               By Pody

                                            Substituted for: House Bill No. 1139

                                By Boyd, Howell, Littleton, Powers, Crawford, Bricken

AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 68, relative to public water systems.

          WHEREAS, the General Assembly seeks to exclude water softening systems from the
definition of public water system; now, therefore,

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:

          SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 68, Chapter 221, Part 7, is amended by adding
the following as a new section:

          68-221-721.

                    (a) As used in this section:

                              (1) "Consecutive system" means a public water system that receives some or
                    all of the system's finished water from one (1) or more wholesale systems. Delivery
                    may be through a direct connection or through the distribution system of one (1) or
                    more consecutive systems; and

                              (2) "Point-of-entry treatment device" means a treatment device applied to the
                    drinking water entering a house, building, or complex of buildings under single
                    ownership for the purpose of reducing contaminants in the drinking water distributed
                    throughout the house, building, or complex of buildings.

                    (b) If a point-of-entry treatment device is installed in a facility solely to soften hard water
          and, because of the installation of such a device, the house, building, or complex of buildings
          meets the definition of a public water system under § 68-221-703, then the facility constitutes
          a consecutive system, and shall monitor the influent and finished water for hardness, alkalinity,
          and pH on a quarterly basis, and sodium on an annual basis, and report the results to the
          department within fifteen (15) days of the end of the reporting period.

          SECTION 2. If any provision of this act or the application of any provision of this act to any
person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of
the act that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to that end, the
provisions of this act are severable.

          SECTION 3. This act takes effect July 1, 2025, the public welfare requiring it.
               SENATE BILL NO. 258

      PASSED:  April 10, 2025

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                                  CAMEF<ON SEXTON, SPEAKER
                                  HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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      C+pr,· APPROVED this __a__3rd day of  1              2025

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               BILL LEE, GOVERNOR