Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF1464

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)