Substitute
House Bill 248
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SPONSOR: Rep. Bryan Williams (R-Akron)
Introduced
05-10-01
Reported,
House Health & Family Services 02-27-02
Passed
House (94-0) 03-12-02
Reported,
Senate Health, Human Services and Aging 12-05-02
Passed
Senate (32-0) 12-05-02
House Concurrence 12-06-02
Signed by Governor Taft 01-06-03
Ohio Revised Code ch. 3742.03 et seq.; 4745 et seq. (1994)
Establishes a childhood lead poisoning prevention program. Provides for the licensure of a person performing lead abatement work; the approval of environmental lead laboratories; directs the implementation of a lead poisoning prevention program; and to create the Lead Program fund; among other purposes. Also included in this law:
clinical laboratories and physicians will be required to report the results of lead screening test to the department of health;
individuals involved in the lead inspection and abatement industry will be required to be licensed;
the director of health or local boards of health may inspect structures for lead upon the report of an elevated blood lead level in a child; and
creates the Legislative Advisory Committee on Environmental Lead Abatement.
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Requires that each child at risk of lead
poisoning undergo a blood lead screening test.
Makes changes to the Child Lead Poisoning
Prevention Program operated by the Department of Health.
Creates an advisory council to assist in the development and
implementation of the Child Lead Poisoning Prevention Program.
Establishes requirements for investigation
and risk assessment of a residential unit, child day-care facility, or
school that may be the source of a child's lead poisoning.
Provides for the issuance of a lead hazard
control order if the results of a risk assessment indicate that a lead
hazard on the property is contributing to a child's lead poisoning.
Establishes the Lead Poisoning Prevention Fund.
Provides that a residential unit, child
day-care facility, or school constructed before 1950 is "legally
presumed" not to be the source of an individual's lead poisoning if the
property owner or manager implements preventive treatments, which include
the performance of essential maintenance practices.
Specifies procedures for the performance of
essential maintenance practices and requires a person who engages in the
essential maintenance practices to complete a training program.
Requires training programs in essential
maintenance practices to be approved by the Director of Health and limits
the length of the programs to not more than six hours.
Specifies training required to be authorized
to perform lead-safe renovations.
Establishes requirements for approval of
lead-safe renovation training programs.
Prohibits a person from using lead-safe
renovation instead of a lead abatement on a property at which a
lead-poisoned child has been identified.
Establishes prohibitions and procedures for lead abatements.
Permits the Director to issue an immediate
cease work order if a license holder's activities endanger the health or
well-being of certain persons.
Provides for the Director of Health to license clearance technicians.
Requires the Public Health Council to adopt
rules governing lead abatement personnel licensure, lead poisoning
prevention, and lead hazard control.
Eliminates the Children's Trust Fund Board's
involvement in the Wellness Block Grant Program.
Makes the Ohio Department of Job and Family
Services (ODJFS) the administrative agent of the Wellness Block Grant
Program instead of the Children's Trust Fund Board.
Requires that the Children's Trust Fund Board allocate funds, rather
than make a block grant, to each county and multi-county child abuse and
child neglect prevention advisory board for child abuse and child neglect
prevention programs.
Requires the Children's Trust Fund Board to also allocate funds for
child abuse and child neglect prevention programs to entities other than the
advisory boards.
Requires an advisory board to provide effective public notice to
potential applicants about the availability of funds from the Children's
Trust Fund.
Requires an advisory board to review applications for grants from the
Children's Trust Fund using criteria the Children's Trust Fund Board, rather
than the advisory board, specifies.
Requires that each recipient of a Children's Trust Fund grant from an
advisory board include in an annual report information the Children's Trust
Fund Board, rather than the advisory board, requires.
Provides that returned Children's Trust Fund grants be returned to the
State Treasurer if an advisory board does not redistribute the grant within
the state fiscal year in which the grant is received.
Requires five of the eight public members of the Children's Trust Fund
Board to be residents of different metropolitan statistical areas.
Changes the manner in which the chairperson
of the Children's Trust Fund Board is to be appointed and requires the
vice-chair of the Board to be biennially selected from among its
non-legislative members.
County
child abuse and neglect prevention advisory boards:
Includes social workers with counselors
among the groups and entities that may be represented on a county or
multi-county child abuse and child neglect prevention advisory board.
Prohibits a child abuse and child neglect prevention advisory board member from participating in the development of the advisory board's comprehensive allocation plan if the member's judgment could be affected by a conflict of interest.
