Report 2019-105 Recommendation Responses
Report 2019-105: Childhood Lead Levels: Millions of Children in Medi-Cal Have Not Received Required Testing for Lead Poisoning (Release Date: January 2020)
Recommendation for Legislative Action
To provide sufficient information to homebuyers and renters, the Legislature should require CDPH, by December 2021, to provide an online lead information registry that allows the public to determine the lead inspection and abatement status for properties. To accomplish this task, CDPH should use the information it already maintains only to the extent that it can ensure that it does not make personally identifying information, including medical information, public.
Description of Legislative Action
As of January 7, 2022, the Legislature has not taken action to address this specific recommendation.
- Legislative Action Current As-of: January 2022
California State Auditor's Assessment of Annual Follow-Up Status: No Action Taken
Description of Legislative Action
As of January 7, 2021, the Legislature has not taken action to address this specific recommendation.
AB 2422 (Grayson, 2020) would have required CDPH to develop and maintain on its 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 have required CDPH to ensure that personally identifiable information, including medical information, is not disclosed or ascertainable from the information available on the registry. This bill failed passage due to adjournment of the 2019-20 Regular Legislative Session.
- Legislative Action Current As-of: January 2021
California State Auditor's Assessment of 1-Year Status: Legislation Proposed But Not Enacted
Description of Legislative Action
AB 2422 (Grayson) would, in part, require CDPH to develop and maintain on its 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 CDPH to ensure that personally identifiable information, including medical information, is not disclosed or ascertainable from the information available on the registry. As July 7, 2020, this bill was pending in the Assembly Health Committee.
SB 1008 (Leyva) would require CDPH to design, implement, and maintain an online lead information registry on its website that enables the public to determine the lead inspection and abatement status for properties, and to use information it maintains for the registry to the extent that CDPH ensures that personally identifying information is made unavailable to the public. As July 7, 2020, this bill was pending in the Senate Health Committee.
- Legislative Action Current As-of: July 2020