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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
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IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
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JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2013 | |
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RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - LEAD POISONING PREVENTION ACT | |
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Introduced By: Representatives Handy, Williams, Silva, Slater, and Hearn | |
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Date Introduced: February 28, 2013 | |
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Referred To: House Finance | |
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It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: | |
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SECTION 1. Section 23-24.6-5 of the General Laws in Chapter 23-24.6 entitled "Lead |
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Poisoning Prevention Act" is hereby amended to read as follows: |
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23-24.6-5. Environmental lead program. -- (a) There is established within the |
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department of health an environmental lead program which shall be responsible for creating a |
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coordinated and comprehensive program for lead poisoning prevention, including screening and |
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detection, education, lead hazard reduction, and enforcement. The program shall exercise any and |
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all authorities of the department which may be necessary and appropriate, including but not |
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limited to promulgating and enforcing regulations, which regulations shall set forth a general |
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framework for actions to be taken in response to childhood lead poisoning at different blood lead |
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levels. |
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(b) The department shall develop an educational program regarding environmental lead |
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exposures and lead poisoning. |
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(c) The department shall promulgate regulations for acceptable environmental lead levels |
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in dwellings, where a child under the age of six (6) years with environmental intervention blood |
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lead level or greater resides, and in buildings or properties frequently used by children under the |
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age of six (6) years, including standards for lead on painted surfaces and surface coatings, |
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drinking water, household dusts, and soil. |
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(d) The environmental lead program shall be federally funded. However, to the extent |
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federal funds are not available or insufficient to fund the environmental lead program, the state of |
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Rhode Island shall appropriate no less than six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000) per fiscal |
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year to the department of health for the support and maintenance of the environmental lead |
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program. |
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SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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EXPLANATION | |
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BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL | |
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RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY - LEAD POISONING PREVENTION ACT | |
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This act would provide that in the event of insufficient federal funds for the |
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environmental lead program, the state of Rhode Island shall appropriate no less than six hundred |
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thousand dollars ($600,000) for support and maintenance of the environmental lead program. |
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This act would take effect upon passage. |
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