Bill Text: NY A05748 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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; 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to health [A05748 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05748-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5748

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 24, 2021
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        Introduced by 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.
                                                                   LBD03536-01-1