BILL NUMBER: AB 945	CHAPTERED  10/05/01

	CHAPTER  524
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  OCTOBER 5, 2001
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  OCTOBER 4, 2001
	PASSED THE SENATE  SEPTEMBER 4, 2001
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 17, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 17, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wright

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2001

   An act to add Section 105291 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to lead poisoning prevention.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 945, Wright.  Lead inspections:  certified industrial
hygienists.
   Existing law requires the State Department of Health Services to
direct the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program to implement a
program to identify and conduct medical followup of high-risk
children, and to establish procedures for environmental abatement and
followup designed to reduce the incidence of excessive childhood
lead exposures.
   This bill would provide that in addition to any other providers
determined to be eligible by the department to provide environmental
investigation services as a part of case management services under
that program, a qualified certified industrial hygienist or other
qualified professional who is certified by the department as an
inspector/assessor shall be eligible to provide those services and
those services shall be funded under that program.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 105291 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   105291.  In addition to any other providers determined to be
eligible by the department to provide environmental investigation
services as a part of case management services under this chapter, a
qualified certified industrial hygienist or other qualified
professional who is certified by the department as an
inspector/assessor shall be eligible to provide those services and
those services shall be funded under the Childhood Lead Poisoning
Prevention Program pursuant to this chapter.