E Relating to health ARTICLE 1 LEAD POISONING PREVENTIONModifying certain provisions relating to lead poisoning prevention; defining or redefining certain terms; requiring laboratories performing lead analysis of paint, soil or dust to be recognized by the federal environmental protection agency (EPA), requiring analysis of samples of drinking water to be performed by laboratories certified by the commissioner of health to analyze lead in water; modifying certain primary prevention program requirements, imposing certain duties on local health boards in first class cities, modifying certain duties of the commissioner, making optional the requirement to use swab team services and eliminating certain voluntary lead abatement and lead hazard reduction requirements; providing for lead safe practices information in lieu of lead safe informational directives; modifying certain secondary prevention and lead risk assessment and orders requirements; modifying property owner responsibility, changing the work plan requirement to a notice requirement; modifying certain licensing and certification requirements, requiring and providing for the licensing of lead workers, supervisors, inspectors, risk assessors and project designers and for the registration of lead sampling technicians and requiring certification of lead firms by the commissioner; modifying certain training and notice requirements; eliminating abatement or lead hazard reduction work plan requirements and the requirement for the commissioner to coordinate with the commissioner of the housing finance agency (HFA) for allocation of federal funds for swab team services; modifying certain rulemaking requirements of the commissioner, requiring rules for issuing lead orders and for notice of abatement or interim control activities requirements; specifying a certain requirement for the consideration of variances; eliminating the requirement for the commissioner to develop a model ordinance for local health boards to adopt to enforce secondary prevention requirements; modifying certain enforcement and status report content requirements; providing for acceptable documented methodologies; repealing a certain paint, soil, dust and drinking water analysis report requirement, the requirement for the commissioner to monitor certain lead abatement or lead hazard reduction methods, certain lead risk assessment guide and licensing requirements, certain local ordinance restrictions and certain program directives ARTICLE 2 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS Eliminating the exception to the prohibition on pay toilets in public places; authorizing and providing for local health boards operating under delegation agreements with the commissioner of health to request approval from the commissioner to use alternatives to inspections of food, beverage and lodging establishments for regulations compliance purposes, authorizing the commissioner to approve requests for equivalent alternative methods with no potential adverse effect on public health, safety or the environment, authorizing the commissioner to attach conditions to the approval and requiring reasons for denial; repealing certain obsolete provisions authorizing the commissioner to use certain duplicating equipment in the Minneapolis office and requiring the commissioner to act as a hotel inspector (mk, ja)