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Assembly Bill A5779

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the definition of elevated blood lead levels

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2019-A5779 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1370, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
A6906

2019-A5779 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to changing the definition of elevated blood lead levels from a blood lead level greater than or equal to ten micrograms of lead per deciliter of whole blood to five micrograms of lead per deciliter of whole blood.

2019-A5779 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5779
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 19, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. RYAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the definition  of
   elevated blood lead levels
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 1370 of the public health law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  485  of  the  laws  of 1992, is amended to read as
 follows:
   6. "Elevated lead levels" means a blood lead  level  greater  than  or
 equal  to  [ten] FIVE micrograms of lead per deciliter of whole blood or
 such LOWER blood lead level as may  be  established  by  the  department
 pursuant to rule or regulation.
   § 2. (a) Within 90 days after the date on which this act takes effect,
 the department of health shall adopt all necessary regulations to define
 "elevated  lead levels" to mean a blood lead level greater than or equal
 to 5 micrograms per deciliter of whole blood, or such lower  blood  lead
 level  as  the  department  may  establish,  to  be utilized in its lead
 poisoning prevention program.   The department shall  be  authorized  to
 promulgate regulations on an emergency basis to implement the provisions
 of this act.
   (b)  Within 6 months after the date on which the federal department of
 health and human services has published guidance  recommending  a  lower
 concentration of lead in blood than the concentration established pursu-
 ant  to section one of this act as the reference level for conducting an
 environmental intervention, the department of  health  shall  publish  a
 notice  of  proposed  rule  making to consider the incorporation of such
 guidance into its regulations.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06236-01-9

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