HOUSE BILL No. 5890

 

March 13, 2008, Introduced by Reps. Hammon, Constan, Clemente, Clack, Robert Jones, Hammel, Angerer, Hopgood, LeBlanc, Accavitti, Meadows, Polidori, Brown, Lemmons, Alma Smith, Simpson, Jackson, Vagnozzi, Johnson, Kathleen Law, Dean, Espinoza and Melton and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.

 

     A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled

 

"Public health code,"

 

(MCL 333.1101 to 333.25211) by adding section 12102.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 12102. Not later than 1 year after the effective date of

 

this section, the department, in consultation with the department

 

of environmental quality, shall do all of the following:

 

     (a) Identify environmental pollutants commonly used or found

 

in areas that are reasonably accessible to children.

 

     (b) Utilizing scientific peer review, prepare a list of

 

environmental pollutants identified under subdivision (a) with

 

known, likely, or suspected health risks to children.

 


     (c) Make recommendations to help reduce or eliminate exposure

 

of children to environmental pollutants on the list prepared under

 

subdivision (b) in areas reasonably accessible to children. If the

 

list prepared under subdivision (b) includes pesticides, the

 

recommendation shall include advice, developed in consultation with

 

the department of agriculture, on how to establish an integrated

 

pest management program that reduces or eliminates exposure of

 

children to those pesticides.

 

     (d) Distribute information, based on the recommendations made

 

under subdivision (c), advising parents on how to protect children

 

from exposure to environmental pollutants.