Relating to comprehensive reform of state’s water infrastructure systems

The purpose of this bill is to comprehensively reform the state's water and wastewater infrastructure, streamline and clarify the process for issuing certain state grants and loans for water and wastewater infrastructure projects, eliminating the Water Development Authority Board and reassigning any necessary functions, requiring additional reports and on-going training for city and county operators of public water and wastewater systems, allowing public water and wastewater systems to enter into Regional Cooperative Agreements, creating an Early Intervention Pilot Program for struggling public water and wastewater utilities, updating the methodology for the watch list for troubled public water and wastewater utilities, establishing an improvement period for public water and wastewater utilities on the watch list, and allowing for required memorandums of understanding when an identified acquiring utility is exempt from forced consolidation.