California Assembly Bill AB358 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 358INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Holden FEBRUARY 14, 2013 An act to amend Section 105280 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to lead poisoning. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST 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 1. Section 105280 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read: 105280. For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) "Appropriate case management" means health care referrals, environmental assessments, and educational activities, performed by the appropriate person, professional, or entity, necessary to reduce a child's exposure to lead and the consequences of the exposure, as determined by the United States Centers for Disease Control  and Prevention  , or as determined by the department pursuant to Section 105300. (b) "Lead poisoning" means the disease present when the concentration of lead in whole venous blood reaches or exceeds levels constituting a health risk, as specified in the most recent United States Centers for Disease Control  and Prevention  guidelines for lead poisoning as determined by the department, or when the concentration of lead in whole venous blood reaches or exceeds levels constituting a health risk as determined by the department pursuant to Section 105300. (c) "Department" means the State Department of  Public  Health  Services  . (d) "Health assessment" has the same meaning as prescribed in Section 6800 of Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations. (e) "Screen" means the medical procedure by which the concentration of lead in whole venous blood is measured. (f) "Health care" means the identification, through evaluation and screening, if indicated, of lead poisoning, as well as any followup medical treatment necessary to reduce the elevated blood lead levels. (g) "Environmental lead contamination" means the persistent presence of lead in the environment, in quantifiable amounts  that can be accurately measured by quantitative or qualitative means, as determined by the department  , that results in ongoing and chronic exposure to children.