AB 358, as introduced, Holden. Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Act of 1991.
Existing law, the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Act of 1991, requires the State Department of Public Health to adopt regulations establishing a standard of care, at least as stringent as the most recent United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention blood lead level screening guidelines, under which all children are required to be evaluated for risk of lead poisoning by health care providers during each child’s periodic health assessment. These provisions are to be implemented only to the extent there are sufficient fees collected from certain manufacturers and persons who significantly contributed or currently contribute, or both, to environmental lead contamination. The act defines “environmental lead contamination” as the persistent presence of lead in the environment, in quantifiable amounts, that results in ongoing and chronic exposure to children.
This bill would specify that quantifiable amounts of lead are amounts that can be accurately measured by quantitative or qualitative means, as determined by the department.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 105280 of the Health and Safety Code
2 is amended to read:
For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions
4apply:
5(a) “Appropriate case management” means health care referrals,
6environmental assessments, and educational activities, performed
7by the appropriate person, professional, or entity, necessary to
8reduce a child’s exposure to lead and the consequences of the
9exposure, as determined by the United States Centers for Disease
10Controlbegin insert and Preventionend insert, or as determined by the department
11pursuant to Section 105300.
12(b) “Lead poisoning” means the disease present when the
13concentration of lead in whole venous blood reaches or
exceeds
14levels constituting a health risk, as specified in the most recent
15United States Centers for Disease Controlbegin insert and Preventionend insert
16 guidelines for lead poisoning as determined by the department, or
17when the concentration of lead in whole venous blood reaches or
18exceeds levels constituting a health risk as determined by the
19department pursuant to Section 105300.
20(c) “Department” means the State Department ofbegin insert Publicend insert Health
21begin delete Servicesend delete.
22(d) “Health assessment” has the same meaning as prescribed in
23Section 6800 of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations.
24(e) “Screen” means the medical procedure by which the
25concentration of lead in whole venous blood is measured.
26(f) “Health care” means the identification, through evaluation
27and screening, if indicated, of lead poisoning, as well as any
28followup medical treatment necessary to reduce the elevated blood
29lead levels.
30(g) “Environmental lead contamination” means the persistent
31presence of lead in the environment, in quantifiable amountsbegin insert that
32can be accurately measured by quantitative or qualitative means,
33as determined by the departmentend insert, that results in ongoing and
34chronic exposure to children.
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