California Health and Safety Code

§ 124160

HSC § 124160 Effective Jan 1, 2005Div. 106 · Part 2 · Ch. 3 · Art. 7

Statute text

The department shall continue to direct the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program to implement a program to identify and conduct medical followup of high-risk children, and to establish procedures for environmental abatement and followup designed to reduce the incidence of excessive childhood lead exposures in California. In implementing this program, the department shall utilize its own studies, as well as relevant information from the scientific literature and childhood lead poisoning programs from outside California. The particular activities specified in this section shall be initiated by January 1, 1990, and completed on or before January 1, 1993. The program shall include at least all of the following components:

(a)Lead screening. The department shall:

(1)Design and implement at least one pilot blood lead screening project targeting children at high risk of elevated blood lead levels. In designing any pilot projects, the department shall give special consideration to conducting screening through the Child Health Disability and Prevention Program.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 193, Sec. 128. Effective January 1, 2005.