PRINTER'S NO. 2779
No. 2126 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY WILLIAMS, BELARDI, BELFANTI, BISHOP, ARGALL,
BROWNE, COSTA, DALEY, DeWEESE, FRANKEL, HENNESSEY, JOSEPHS,
KIRKLAND, LEDERER, MELIO, MYERS, ORIE, RAMOS, ROEBUCK,
ROONEY, SEYFERT, SOLOBAY, STABACK, STEELMAN, E. Z. TAYLOR,
THOMAS, TIGUE, TRELLO, WALKO, WATERS, YOUNGBLOOD, YUDICHAK,
RUBLEY, BARD, M. COHEN, CURRY, DeLUCA, FICHTER, HARHAI,
HORSEY, KENNEY, LAUGHLIN, MANDERINO AND MICHLOVIC,
DECEMBER 8, 1999
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON AGING AND YOUTH, DECEMBER 8, 1999
AN ACT
1 Providing for lead-level testing of day-care and preschool
2 facilities; and making an appropriation.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Short title.
6 This act shall be known and may be cited as the Hazardous
7 Lead-Level Testing Act.
8 Section 2. Definitions.
9 The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
10 have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
11 context clearly indicates otherwise:
12 "Department." The Department of Health of the Commonwealth.
13 "Risk area." Any of the following:
14 (1) A day-care center or facility supervised or licensed
15 by the Department of Public Welfare.
1 (2) A licensed nursery school.
2 (3) A private academic school which provides preschool
3 education.
4 (4) A preschool owned or operated by or under the
5 authority of a bona fide religious institution.
6 (5) A preschool accredited by the National Association
7 for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).
8 Section 3. Testing and reporting.
9 (a) Testing.--The department shall conduct testing to
10 determine the presence and levels of hazardous lead in risk
11 areas. The department shall schedule testing so that all risk
12 areas in this Commonwealth are tested within five years of the
13 effective date of this act.
14 (b) Abatement resources.--The department shall provide
15 resource and referral information relating to lead abatement,
16 including available Federal and State government programs, to
17 each entity which has control over any risk area that is found
18 to contain hazardous lead.
19 (c) Report.--The department shall publish in the
20 Pennsylvania Bulletin an annual report of the testing under
21 subsection (a).
22 Section 4. Appropriation.
23 The sum of $2,500,000 is hereby appropriated to the
24 Department of Health for the fiscal year July 1, 1999, to June
25 30, 2000, to carry out the provisions of this act. This
26 appropriation shall be a continuing appropriation and shall
27 lapse on June 30, 2005.
28 Section 5. Effective date.
29 This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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