Lead-Safe Housing for Kids Act of 2016
Latest action · Mar 4, 2016 Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 3, 2016
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Lead-Safe Housing for Kids Act of 2016
This bill directs the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to promulgate regulations to update the standards for lead-contaminated dust and lead-contaminated soil, in accordance with health-based standards.
The Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992 is amended to define elevated blood lead level as the lower of:
- 5 mg/dL (micrograms of lead per deciliter), or
- the most recent definition for elevated blood lead level or reference range level in children ages 1 through 5 set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The bill also removes 0-bedroom housing from the definition of target housing.
The Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Act is amended to direct HUD to promulgate regulations that:
- require an initial lead-based paint hazard risk assessment before a family with a child under age six occupies certain housing, unless lead-based paint has already been removed; and
- state that a visual assessment is not sufficient for these purposes.
These regulations shall apply to housing receiving federal assistance that was constructed before 1978, but exclude:
- single-family housing covered by an application for mortgage insurance from the Federal Housing Administration, or
- multi-family housing covered by such an application but does not receive any other federal housing assistance.
HUD regulations shall also require emergency relocation of such families, without placement on a waitlist, penalty, or lapse in assistance, to another unit of covered housing that has no lead-based paint hazards.
The Government Accountability Office shall report to Congress on lead hazards in federally assisted housing.
Cosponsors 27
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 3, 2016 to May 17, 2016; 3 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MI | Brenda L. Lawrence | Original | Mar 3, 2016 |
| D-MI | Daniel T. Kildee | Original | Mar 3, 2016 |
| D-IL | Mike Quigley | Original | Mar 3, 2016 |
| D-IL | Luis V. Gutierrez | Mar 14, 2016 | |
| D-NY | Brian Higgins | Mar 21, 2016 | |
| D-VA | Donald S. Beyer, Jr. | Mar 21, 2016 | |
| D-PA | Matt Cartwright | Mar 21, 2016 | |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Mar 23, 2016 | |
| D-NJ | Bonnie Watson Coleman | Mar 23, 2016 | |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Mar 23, 2016 | |
| D-NC | G. K. Butterfield | Mar 23, 2016 | |
| D-MI | John Conyers, Jr. | Mar 23, 2016 | |
| D-NY | Louise McIntosh Slaughter | Mar 23, 2016 | |
| D-AZ | Raúl M. Grijalva | Mar 23, 2016 | |
| D-MD | Chris Van Hollen | Apr 11, 2016 | |
| D-IL | Janice D. Schakowsky | Apr 11, 2016 | |
| D-NY | Yvette D. Clarke | Apr 11, 2016 | |
| D-WA | Adam Smith | Apr 12, 2016 | |
| D-AZ | Ann Kirkpatrick | Apr 12, 2016 | |
| D-IL | Cheri Bustos | Apr 12, 2016 | |
| D-WI | Gwen Moore | Apr 12, 2016 | |
| D-OH | Marcy Kaptur | Apr 12, 2016 | |
| D-CA | Mark DeSaulnier | Apr 13, 2016 | |
| D-WI | Mark Pocan | Apr 13, 2016 | |
| D-CA | John Garamendi | Apr 20, 2016 | |
| D-NJ | Albio Sires | May 6, 2016 | |
| D-MD | Elijah E. Cummings | May 17, 2016 |
Committees 2
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Financial Services Committee | Referred Mar 3, 2016 |
| House | Energy and Commerce Committee | Referred Mar 3, 2016 |
| Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee | Referred Mar 4, 2016 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 4, 2016Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade.
- Mar 3, 2016Introduced in House
- Mar 3, 2016Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Constitutional authority
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 162, no. 35, March 3, 2016, page H1145.
Related bills 2
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 2631 | Lead-Safe Housing for Kids Act of 2016 | Identical bill | Mar 3, 2016 |
| S 2821 | True LEADership Act of 2016 | Related bill | Apr 20, 2016 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992 to define environmental intervention blood lead level, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Lead-Safe Housing for Kids Act of 2016
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Housing and Community Development.
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures
- Child health
- Congressional oversight
- Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Environmental health
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Environmental regulatory procedures
- Government studies and investigations
- Hazardous wastes and toxic substances
- Housing and Community Development
- Housing and community development funding
- Low- and moderate-income housing
- Public housing
- Residential rehabilitation and home repair
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 3, 2016Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
