Requires the recommendation to a parent for blood lead level screenings of his or her child when a health care provider finds high lead levels in the blood of such child; and directs the department of health to conduct an environmental investigation when a child is found to have high levels of lead in his or her blood.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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11198
IN ASSEMBLY
June 14, 2018
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Joyner) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to screening for lead
poisoning in children
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 1370-e of the public health law is amended by
2 adding two new subdivisions 6 and 7 to read as follows:
3 6. The department shall require primary care providers to recommend
4 follow up blood lead level screenings to parents of children whose blood
5 lead levels test at not less than 15 micrograms per deciliter of whole
6 blood up to 24.99 micrograms per deciliter of whole blood.
7 7. If a child's blood level test is above 25 micrograms per deciliter
8 of whole blood, the commissioner or his designee shall take appropriate
9 measures to ensure that an environmental investigation, as required by
10 subpart 67-2 of title ten of the New York state codes, rules and regu-
11 lations, is completed. If the department finds that the investigation
12 has not been completed within one hundred eighty days of its notice of
13 the blood lead level finding, the department shall complete such inves-
14 tigation immediately. The department may take reasonable measures to
15 collect the costs of conducting these assessments from entities
16 originally responsible for conducting them.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14685-01-8
