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Flow Act

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the private business use requirements for bonds issued for lead service line replacement projects.

Introduced Jun 10, 2025

Latest action (Jun 10, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Referred to
Ways and Means Committee
Policy area
Taxation
Issues
Economy & Taxes

Summary
  • Clarifies that replacing privately-owned portions of lead service lines connected to public water systems does not constitute private business use for tax-exempt bond purposes.
  • Specifies that such replacement work must be conducted to achieve or maintain compliance with federal drinking water regulations for lead.
  • Defines lead service lines and national primary drinking water regulations for lead according to the Safe Drinking Water Act.
  • Amends the Internal Revenue Code Section 141(b)(6) to exempt qualified lead service line replacement from private business use classification.
  • Takes effect for bonds and obligations issued after December 31, 2025.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
8 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Claudia Tenney’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • Employer not reported $111,905
  • WEXFORD CAPITAL $13,300
  • HUBBARD BROADCASTING INC. $13,200
  • POLARIS $13,200
  • BLUFF POINT ASSOC. $13,200

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Claudia Tenney → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Jun 10, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. · house
  2. Jun 10, 2025 Introduced in House

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Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Jun 10, 2025

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Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

June 10, 2025

Ms. Tenney (for herself, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, and Ms. Stevens) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

A BILL

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the private business use requirements for bonds issued for lead service line replacement projects.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Financing Lead Out of Water Act of 2025”, or the “Flow Act”.

SEC. 2. MODIFICATION OF PRIVATE BUSINESS USE REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN BONDS.

(a) In General.—Section 141(b)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:

“(D) Clarification relating to qualified lead service line replacement use.—

“(i) In general.—For purposes of this subsection, qualified lead service line replacement use shall not constitute private business use.

“(ii) Definitions.—For purposes of this subparagraph—

“(I) Qualified lead service line replacement use.—The term ‘qualified lead service line replacement use’ means, with respect to any public water system, use of the proceeds of an issue to replace any privately-owned portion of a lead service line connected to such system to facilitate, achieve or maintain compliance with a national primary drinking water regulation for lead.

“(II) Lead service line.—The term ‘lead service line’ has the meaning given such term in section 1459B(a)(4) of the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended.

“(III) National primary drinking water regulation for lead.—The term ‘national primary drinking water regulation for lead’ means a national primary drinking water regulation for lead promulgated under section 1412 of such Act.

“(IV) Public water system.—The term ‘public water system’ has the meaning given such term in section 1401(4) of such Act.”.

(b) Effective Date.—The amendments made by this section shall apply to obligations issued after December 31, 2025. <all>

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