MN HF4015

Lowers the threshold for an elevated blood lead level from 10 micrograms per deciliter to greater than zero micrograms of lead per deciliter of whole blood in any person.

Amends Minnesota Statutes 2014, section 144.9501, subdivision 9, regarding the definition of elevated blood lead level under the Lead Poisoning Prevention Act.

Cites 2014 Minnesota Department of Health findings that there is no safe level of lead exposure and that elevated blood lead levels in young children cause learning impairments, behavioral problems, and death.

Establishes that children in poverty and younger children face greater risk for lead poisoning because their bodies absorb lead more easily and their brains are still developing.

Removes the commissioner's discretionary authority to find that a lower concentration is necessary to protect public health, making any detectable lead level an elevated blood lead level.