l9n/ Mississippi

2022 Regular Session

House Bill 923

Lead poisoning; require Department of Health to revise its prevention policies to align with CDC recommendation.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Public Health and Human Services Committee on February 1, 2022. The 2022 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the Legislature published with the bill.

AN ACT TO REQUIRE THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO REVISE ITS LEAD POISONING PREVENTION POLICIES TO ALIGN WITH THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC) FOR LEAD POISONING PREVENTION; TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT TO IDENTIFY GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONS WITH HIGH RISK FACTORS FOR ELEVATED BLOOD LEAD LEVELS (EBLL) IN CHILDREN AND REQUIRE UNIVERSAL SCREENING AND TESTING IN THOSE AREAS FOR CHILDREN AT TWELVE AND TWENTY-FOUR MONTHS OF AGE; TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT TO LOWER THE THRESHOLD OF EBLL FOR MANDATORY LEAD RISK ASSESSMENTS TO 5.0 MICROGRAMS PER DECILITER OF BLOOD; TO REQUIRE THE DEPARTMENT TO DEVELOP CENTRALIZED WEB-BASED DATA RESOURCES FOR LEAD POISONING INFORMATION; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the House of Representatives

Its course

January 17 to February 1, 2022, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action2 actions on 2 days

In the House of RepresentativesJan 17 to Feb 1 · stopped15 days

Public Health and Human ServicesJan 17 to Feb 1 · stopped15 days

Text

Each version as the Legislature printed it.

l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the Legislature published it is below.

In the House of Representatives Jan 17 – Feb 1

  1. Referred to the House committee on Public Health and Human Services
  2. Died in committee in the House
All 2 actions, as published