Bill Text: NY S07796 | 2017-2018 | 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; 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-26 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S07796 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S07796-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7796
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 26, 2018
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        Introduced  by Sen. HAMILTON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed 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.
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