HB 1308 — An Act amending Titles 27 (Environmental Resources) and 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, providing for storm water management; and, in municipal authorities, further providing for definitions and for purposes and powers.

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13081903 2025THE INTRODUCEDGENERAL BYASSEMBLY FLEMING,OF MADSEN,PENNSYLVANIA HILL-EVANS,HOUSE PIELLI,BILL GIRAL,Session SANCHEZ, BOROWSKI, FREEMAN, DONAHUE, GREEN AND DAVIDSON, APRIL 28, 2025 REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, APRIL 28, 2025 AN ACT Amending Titles 27 (Environmental Resources) and 53 (Municipalities Generally) of theNo. Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, providing for storm water management;

1308 2025 INTRODUCED BY FLEMING, MADSEN, HILL-EVANS, PIELLI, GIRAL, APRIL 28, 2025SKI, FREEMAN, DONAHUE, GREEN AND DAVIDSON, AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, JUNE 11, 2025 AN ACT Amending Titles 27 (Environmental Resources) and 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, providing for storm water management;

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<-- The General Assembly finds that:

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<-- The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

20250HB1308PN1903 - 2 - "Impervious surface." As follows:

20250HB1308PN1502 - 2 - (1) An area, material, structure, surface or improvement that does not allow or that reduces or prevents infiltration of water into soil.

§ 3303.3303 3302.

<-- If a municipal corporation or municipal authority performs storm water planning, management and implementation and charges or imposes a reasonable fee to owners of property:

20250HB1308PN1903 - 3 - (1) An area, material, structure, surface or improvement 20250HB1308PN1502 - 3 - that does not allow or that reduces or prevents infiltration of water into soil.

(i) The rates shall be based on property contribution to storm water runoff, including the property's impervious surface as determined by the authority or the installation and maintenance of onsite best management practices approved and inspected by the 20250HB1308PN1903 - 4 - authority.

20250HB1308PN1502 - 4 - (ii) All properties containing an impervious surface are presumed to benefit from an authority's storm water planning, management and implementation.

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