 They arbitrarily passed a law without checking to see what the impact would be. My customers are probably going to pay three times as much, you know, for a backflow test. So how did this happen? The Democratic House sponsor of the bill, Representative Sheila Leiter, told me this was an unintended impact of a bigger plumbing bill. Republican State Senator Byron Pelton, who also sponsored this bill, told me a local plumbers union joined in the negotiation.