Bill Text: CA AB2963 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Worker safety: blood lead levels: reporting.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2018-09-27 - Vetoed by Governor. [AB2963 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB2963-Enrolled.html
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September 04, 2018 |
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Senate
August 28, 2018 |
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Assembly
August 30, 2018 |
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August 23, 2018 |
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June 21, 2018 |
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April 11, 2018 |
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March 22, 2018 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 2963 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Kalra (Coauthor: Assembly Member Chiu) (Coauthor: Senator Lara) |
February 16, 2018 |
An act to amend Section 105185 of the Health and Safety Code, and to add Section 147.3 to the Labor Code, relating to employment.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2963, Kalra.
Worker safety: blood lead levels: reporting.
Existing law requires the Department of Industrial Relations, by interagency agreement with the State Department of Public Health, to establish a repository of current data on toxic materials and harmful physical agents in use or potentially in use in places of employment in the state. That repository is known as the Hazard Evaluation System and Information Service (HESIS). Existing law requires the HESIS, among other things, to provide information and collect and evaluate data relating to possible hazards to employees resulting from exposure to toxic materials or harmful physical agents. Existing law establishes the Division of Occupational Safety and Health within the Department of Industrial Relations and requires the division to, among other things, monitor, analyze, and propose health and safety standards for workers.
This bill would require the State Department of Public Health to consider a report from a laboratory of an employee’s blood lead level at or above 25 micrograms per deciliter to be injurious to the health of the employee and to report that case within 5 business days to the Division of Occupational Safety and Health. The bill would further require that the above-described report constitute a serious violation and would subject the employer or place of employment to an investigation, as provided, by the division, and would require the division to make any
citations or fines imposed as a result of the investigation publicly available on an annual basis.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 105185 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:105185.
(a) The department shall establish and maintain an occupational lead poisoning prevention program, including, but not limited to, the following:(1) Developing a system for monitoring laboratory reports of cases of adult lead toxicity, to create an occupational lead poisoning registry.
(2) Following up reported cases of occupational lead poisoning to ascertain the source of lead exposure.
(3) Conducting investigations in cases where take-home exposure may be occurring, where there is a likelihood of identifying additional cases, or where a previously unidentified risk factor may be
present.
(4) Conducting training of employers, employees, and health professionals regarding prevention of occupational lead poisoning.
(5) Making recommendations for the prevention of lead poisoning.
(b) In any situation where the activities specified in subdivision (a) may duplicate or overlap the activities of any other state department or agency, including the Department of Industrial Relations, the department shall coordinate with the other departments or agency and take actions to avoid program and service duplication.
(c) As part of the department’s Occupational Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, the department shall consider a report from a laboratory of an
employee’s blood lead level at or above 25 micrograms per deciliter to be injurious to the health of the employee and shall report that case within five business days to the Division of Occupational Safety and Health.
(d) The department may adopt regulations to implement this section and Sections 105190 and 105195. Any regulations adopted shall be considered and adopted as emergency regulations in accordance with Section 11346.1 of the Government Code.
