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IN HB1329
Bill
Status
1/14/2019
Primary Sponsor
Ryan Dvorak
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AI Summary
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Indiana State Department of Health must identify areas with high lead ingestion risk for children based on blood examination reports, federal agency data, and local factors such as lead-based paint prevalence, lead water pipes, and industrial contamination.
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School corporations serving students in designated high-risk areas must require lead poisoning testing for all children who both reside in the high-risk area and attend schools in that district.
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State health department must provide written notice to all school corporations operating schools attended by children living in identified high-risk areas.
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Students whose parents declare financial inability to pay for testing must be referred to free clinics or public health facilities serving indigent populations.
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Effective date: July 1, 2019; amends IC 16-41-39.4-2 and IC 20-34-3.
Legislative Description
Testing of school age children for lead poisoning. Requires the state department of health (state department) to identify those areas of Indiana in which the risk of lead ingestion by children is so high that, in the judgment of the state health commissioner, every school age child who resides in the area should be tested for lead poisoning. Requires the state department to provide written notice about the identification of the high lead ingestion risk areas (high risk area) to every school corporation that operates one or more schools attended by children who reside in a high risk area. Provides that if a school corporation is notified by the state department that an area served by the school corporation is a high risk area, the school corporation shall require all children who: (1) reside in that high risk area; and (2) attend or enroll in a school operated by the school corporation; to be tested for lead poisoning.
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health
1/14/2019