Lead testing.

Existing law, the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Act of 1991, requires the State Department of Public Health to adopt regulations establishing a standard of care at least as stringent as the most recent United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention screening guidelines, whereby all children are evaluated for risk of lead poisoning by health care providers during each child's periodic health assessment. Existing law requires the standard of care for a child who is determined to be "at risk" for lead poisoning to include the screening of that child. Existing regulations require every health care provider who performs a periodic health assessment of a child to order a child who receives services from a publicly funded program for low-income children to be screened for lead poisoning. Existing law requires a laboratory that performs a blood lead analysis on a specimen of human blood drawn in California to report specified information to the department for each analysis on every person tested. Existing law requires that all information reported be confidential, except that the department is authorized to share the information for the purpose of surveillance, case management, investigation, environmental assessment, environmental remediation, or abatement with the local health department, environmental health agency, or building department, so long as the entity receiving the information otherwise maintains the confidentiality of the information, as specified. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to implement and administer a program to meet the requirements of the federal Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992. Among other things, the program requires the department to establish certification requirements for persons conducting lead-related construction work, abatement, or lead hazard evaluation. Existing regulations require specified information relating to hazard evaluations for public and residential buildings to be provided to the department. This bill would add to the information that a laboratory is required to provide the Medi-Cal identification number, or other equivalent medical identification number of the person tested. The bill would require, if the person tested is a minor, that the laboratory include the person's contact information and a unique identifier, in a form to be determined by the department, as specified. This bill would require the department to develop and maintain on its internet website a public registry of lead-contaminated locations reported to the department pursuant to the provisions relating to lead hazards in buildings. The bill would require the department to ensure that personally identifiable information, including medical information, is not disclosed or ascertainable from the information available on the registry.