A05779 Summary:
BILL NO | A05779 |
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SAME AS | No Same As |
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SPONSOR | Ryan |
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COSPNSR | Ortiz, Englebright, Rosenthal L, Epstein, Griffin, Colton, Galef, Thiele, Gottfried, Jacobson, Blake, Otis, Lupardo, Fall, Wright, Dinowitz, Fernandez, Carroll, Stirpe, Quart, Ashby, Barron, Weprin, Steck |
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Amd §1370, Pub Health L | |
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Relates to changing the definition of elevated blood lead levels from a blood lead level greater than or equal to ten micrograms of lead per deciliter of whole blood to five micrograms of lead per deciliter of whole blood. |
A05779 Actions:
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02/19/2019 | referred to health | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
02/28/2019 | reported referred to ways and means | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
03/05/2019 | reported referred to rules | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
03/05/2019 | reported | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
03/05/2019 | rules report cal.37 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
03/05/2019 | ordered to third reading rules cal.37 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
03/06/2019 | passed assembly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
03/06/2019 | delivered to senate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
03/06/2019 | REFERRED TO FINANCE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/08/2020 | DIED IN SENATE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/08/2020 | RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/08/2020 | ordered to third reading cal.222 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/28/2020 | committed to ways and means | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/28/2020 | enacting clause stricken |
A05779 Committee Votes:
Gottfried | Aye | Raia | Aye | ||||||
Schimminger | Aye | McDonough | Aye | ||||||
Galef | Aye | Ra | Aye | ||||||
Dinowitz | Aye | Garbarino | Aye | ||||||
Cahill | Aye | Byrne | Aye | ||||||
Paulin | Aye | Byrnes | Aye | ||||||
Cymbrowitz | Aye | Ashby | Aye | ||||||
Gunther | Aye | ||||||||
Rosenthal | Aye | ||||||||
Hevesi | Aye | ||||||||
Jaffee | Aye | ||||||||
Steck | Aye | ||||||||
Abinanti | Aye | ||||||||
Braunstein | Aye | ||||||||
Kim | Aye | ||||||||
Solages | Aye | ||||||||
Bichotte | Excused | ||||||||
Barron | Aye | ||||||||
Sayegh | Aye | ||||||||
Weinstein | Aye | Barclay | Aye | ||||||
Lentol | Aye | Crouch | Aye | ||||||
Schimminger | Excused | Fitzpatrick | Aye | ||||||
Gantt | Excused | Hawley | Aye | ||||||
Glick | Aye | Malliotakis | Aye | ||||||
Nolan | Excused | Montesano | Aye | ||||||
Pretlow | Aye | Ra | Aye | ||||||
Perry | Aye | Blankenbush | Aye | ||||||
Colton | Aye | Palmesano | Aye | ||||||
Cook | Aye | Norris | Aye | ||||||
Cahill | Aye | ||||||||
Aubry | Aye | ||||||||
Thiele | Aye | ||||||||
Cusick | Aye | ||||||||
Ortiz | Aye | ||||||||
Benedetto | Aye | ||||||||
Weprin | Aye | ||||||||
Rodriguez | Aye | ||||||||
Ramos | Absent | ||||||||
Braunstein | Aye | ||||||||
McDonald | Aye | ||||||||
Rozic | Aye | ||||||||
Simotas | Aye | ||||||||
Dinowitz | Aye | ||||||||
Miller | Aye | ||||||||
Heastie | Aye | Kolb | Excused | ||||||
Gottfried | Aye | Crouch | Aye | ||||||
Lentol | Aye | Finch | Excused | ||||||
Gantt | Excused | Barclay | Aye | ||||||
Nolan | Aye | Raia | Aye | ||||||
Weinstein | Aye | Hawley | Aye | ||||||
Ortiz | Aye | Giglio | Aye | ||||||
Pretlow | Aye | Malliotakis | Aye | ||||||
Cook | Aye | ||||||||
Glick | Aye | ||||||||
Aubry | Aye | ||||||||
Englebright | Aye | ||||||||
Dinowitz | Aye | ||||||||
Colton | Aye | ||||||||
Magnarelli | Aye | ||||||||
Perry | Aye | ||||||||
Paulin | Aye | ||||||||
Titus | Aye | ||||||||
Peoples-Stokes | Aye | ||||||||
Benedetto | Aye | ||||||||
Lavine | Aye | ||||||||
Lupardo | Excused | ||||||||
Zebrowski | Aye | ||||||||
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A05779 Floor Votes:
Yes
Abbate
Yes
Crespo
ER
Gantt
Yes
LiPetri
Yes
Perry
Yes
Simon
Yes
Abinanti
Yes
Crouch
Yes
Garbarino
Yes
Lupardo
Yes
Pheffer Amato
Yes
Simotas
Yes
Arroyo
Yes
Cruz
Yes
Giglio
Yes
Magnarelli
Yes
Pichardo
Yes
Smith
Yes
Ashby
Yes
Cusick
Yes
Glick
Yes
Malliotakis
Yes
Pretlow
Yes
Smullen
Yes
Aubry
Yes
Cymbrowitz
Yes
Goodell
Yes
Manktelow
Yes
Quart
Yes
Solages
Yes
Barclay
Yes
Davila
Yes
Gottfried
Yes
McDonald
Yes
Ra
Yes
Stec
Yes
Barnwell
Yes
De La Rosa
Yes
Griffin
Yes
McDonough
Yes
Raia
Yes
Steck
Yes
Barrett
Yes
DenDekker
Yes
Gunther
Yes
McMahon
Yes
Ramos
Yes
Stern
Yes
Barron
Yes
DeStefano
Yes
Hawley
Yes
Mikulin
Yes
Raynor
Yes
Stirpe
Yes
Benedetto
Yes
Dickens
Yes
Hevesi
Yes
Miller B
Yes
Reilly
Yes
Tague
Yes
Bichotte
Yes
Dilan
Yes
Hunter
Yes
Miller MG
Yes
Reyes
Yes
Taylor
Yes
Blake
Yes
Dinowitz
Yes
Hyndman
ER
Miller ML
Yes
Richardson
Yes
Thiele
Yes
Blankenbush
Yes
DiPietro
Yes
Jacobson
Yes
Montesano
Yes
Rivera
Yes
Titus
Yes
Brabenec
Yes
D'Urso
Yes
Jaffee
Yes
Morinello
ER
Rodriguez
Yes
Vanel
Yes
Braunstein
Yes
Eichenstein
Yes
Jean-Pierre
Yes
Mosley
Yes
Romeo
Yes
Walczyk
Yes
Bronson
Yes
Englebright
Yes
Johns
Yes
Niou
Yes
Rosenthal D
Yes
Walker
Yes
Buchwald
Yes
Epstein
Yes
Jones
Yes
Nolan
Yes
Rosenthal L
Yes
Wallace
Yes
Burke
Yes
Fahy
Yes
Joyner
Yes
Norris
Yes
Rozic
Yes
Walsh
Yes
Buttenschon
Yes
Fall
Yes
Kim
Yes
O'Donnell
Yes
Ryan
Yes
Weinstein
Yes
Byrne
Yes
Fernandez
ER
Kolb
Yes
Ortiz
Yes
Salka
Yes
Weprin
Yes
Byrnes
Yes
Finch
Yes
Lalor
Yes
Otis
Yes
Santabarbara
Yes
Williams
Yes
Cahill
Yes
Fitzpatrick
Yes
Lavine
Yes
Palmesano
Yes
Sayegh
Yes
Woerner
Yes
Carroll
Yes
Friend
Yes
Lawrence
Yes
Palumbo
Yes
Schimminger
Yes
Wright
Yes
Colton
Yes
Frontus
Yes
Lentol
Yes
Paulin
Yes
Schmitt
Yes
Zebrowski
Yes
Cook
Yes
Galef
Yes
Lifton
Yes
Peoples-Stokes
Yes
Seawright
Yes
Mr. Speaker
‡ Indicates voting via videoconference
A05779 Memo:
Go to topNEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)   BILL NUMBER: A5779 SPONSOR: Ryan
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the public health law, in relation to the definition of elevated blood lead levels   PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF THE BILL: This bill will protect the health of children in New York State by lowering the statutory standard for elevated blood lead levels to reflect current scientific guidance   SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 amends the definition of "elevated lead levels" set forth in subdivision 6 of § 1370 of the Public Health Law to lower the level of lead in whole blood requiring action under the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program from the current level of 10 micrograms of lead per deciliter of whole blood (pg/dL) to 5 pg/dL. The section also clarifies that the statutory authorization for the Department of Health to estab- lish a different blood lead level (BLL) by regulation only allows it to establish a level lower than 5 pg/dL. Section 2 requires the Department of Health to adopt all necessary regu- lations, within 90 days of the effective date of the act, to define "elevated lead levels" to mean a BLL greater than or equal to 5 pg/dL of whole blood, or such lower BLL as the Department may establish, to be utilized in its lead poisoning prevention program. The Department is authorized to promulgate regulations on an emergency basis to implement the provisions of this act. § 2 further provides that, within 6 months after the date on which the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services publishes guidance recommending a lower concentration of lead in blood as a reference level for public health responses than the concentration established pursuant to § 1 of the bill, the Department shall publish a notice of proposed rulemaking to consider incorporating such guidance into its regulations. Section 3 sets an effective date for this act.   JUSTIFICATION: When the Legislature enacted the "Lead Poisoning Prevention Act" in 1992, it incorporated a recommendation issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control CDC). In 1991, the CDC had recommended a BLL of 10 pg/dL or greater as an action level for children and an advisory level for environmental and educational intervention. In 2012, the CDC lowered the recommended BLL to 5 pg/dL. Although the Department of Health is author- ized under the statute to prescribe a different level by regulation, to date it has taken no action. To set its recommendation, the CDC uses a reference value based on the 97.5th percentile of the BLL distribution among children 1 -5 years old in the United States. As public health efforts continue, this value is expected to decrease. The CDC reconsiders its recommendation every four years, and is currently considering lowering its recommended BLL to 3.5 pg/dL. Lead is toxic and can cause neurological damage to children at any level. The CDC has stated that no safe blood level in children has been identified. Nevertheless, it still expects that children whose blood tests higher than the reference level - that is, whose blood level is higher than 97.5% of children in the U.S - should benefit from a public health response. Blood test data from 2014 reported by the CDC indicates that over 6000 children in New York City and almost 2000 children in other parts of the state had BLLs between 5 and 9 pg/dL. This bill will improve the State's efforts to protect children's health and will ensure that any future changes in the CDC's recommendations receive prompt consideration.   PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 2017-18: A06906   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None   EFFECTIVE DATE: This act takes effect immediately.
A05779 Text:
Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5779 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 19, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RYAN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the definition of elevated blood lead levels The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 1370 of the public health law, as 2 amended by chapter 485 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 6. "Elevated lead levels" means a blood lead level greater than or 5 equal to [ten] five micrograms of lead per deciliter of whole blood or 6 such lower blood lead level as may be established by the department 7 pursuant to rule or regulation. 8 § 2. (a) Within 90 days after the date on which this act takes effect, 9 the department of health shall adopt all necessary regulations to define 10 "elevated lead levels" to mean a blood lead level greater than or equal 11 to 5 micrograms per deciliter of whole blood, or such lower blood lead 12 level as the department may establish, to be utilized in its lead 13 poisoning prevention program. The department shall be authorized to 14 promulgate regulations on an emergency basis to implement the provisions 15 of this act. 16 (b) Within 6 months after the date on which the federal department of 17 health and human services has published guidance recommending a lower 18 concentration of lead in blood than the concentration established pursu- 19 ant to section one of this act as the reference level for conducting an 20 environmental intervention, the department of health shall publish a 21 notice of proposed rule making to consider the incorporation of such 22 guidance into its regulations. 23 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06236-01-9
A05779 LFIN:
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A05779 Chamber Video/Transcript:
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