City of Baltimore - File #: 05-0045R

• File #: 05-0045R
• Version: 0
• Name: A Request for Legal Action - Lead Paint
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Failed
• File created: 4/18/2005
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 5/1/2006
• Title: A Request for Legal Action - Lead Paint FOR the purpose of requesting that the City Solicitor research and study the feasability of instituting legal action against the paint and lead pigment industry to recover damages to the City and its residents.
• Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, President Young, Robert Curran, Kenneth Harris, James B. Kraft, Belinda Conaway, Keiffer Mitchell, President Dixon
• Indexes: Lead Paint, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
5/1/2006	0	City Council	Failed
5/1/2006	0	Education, Housing, Health and Human Services	Recommended Favorably
3/20/2006	0	Education, Housing, Health and Human Services	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
4/21/2005	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
4/18/2005	0	City Council	Introduced
4/18/2005	0	The City Council	Assigned

EXPLANATION: Underlining indicates matter added by amendment.
Strike out indicates matter deleted by amendment.
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL 05-0045R
(Resolution)
Introduced by: Councilmembers Clarke, Young, Curran, Harris, Kraft, Conaway, Mitchell
Introduced and read first time: April 18, 2005
Assigned to: Education, Housing, Health, and Human Services Committee REFERRED TO THE FOLLOWING AGENCIES: City Solicitor
A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
A Request for Legal Action - Lead Paint

FOR the purpose of requesting that the City Solicitor research and study the feasability of instituting legal action against the paint and lead pigment industry to recover damages to the City and its residents.
Body
Recitals

The United States Department of Health and Human Resources considers lead paint poisoning to be one of the most common and serious environmental diseases in young children in the United States. Lead poisoning causes serious developmental damage to the mind and body of young children and is completely preventable. Lead poisoning is highly prevalent in Baltimore City. Over 140,000 Baltimore housing units still contain lead-based paint, and lead paint is the single most common source of lead poisoning in children.

As early as 1904, interior surfaces coated in lead paint have been recognized as a source of children's lead poisoning, and in 1933, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) identified lead paint as the primary source of lead poisoning in children. Although the toxicity of lead paint has been scientifically documented and well known to the paint and lead pigment industry since the beginning of this cen...