City of Baltimore - File #: 05-0044R

• File #: 05-0044R
• Version: 0
• Name: Task Force on Lead Hazard Inspection, Enforcement, and Abatement
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Withdrawn
• File created: 4/18/2005
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 11/21/2005
• Title: Task Force on Lead Hazard Inspection, Enforcement, and Abatement FOR the purpose of establishing a task force to review Baltimore City's inspection, enforcement, and abatement laws and regulations that address the issue of lead paint and other lead-related hazards in structures throughout the metropolitan area; to determine if enforcement protocols and practices are adequate to address the scope of lead contaminated properties; to identify measures to better coordinate enforcement activity both within and between agencies; and to ascertain if lead enforcement responsibilities are assigned to the appropriate agency.
• Sponsors: President Dixon, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Robert Curran, Helen L. Holton, Edward Reisinger, Stephanie Rawlings Blake, Belinda Conaway, Keiffer Mitchell, Paula Johnson Branch, Agnes Welch, Rochelle Spector

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
11/21/2005	0	City Council	Withdrawn
11/21/2005	0	City Council	Withdrawn
10/31/2005	0	City Council	Re-referred to Committee
10/20/2005	0	Education, Housing, Health and Human Services	Recommended Favorably with Amendment	Pass
8/17/2005	0	Education, Housing, Health and Human Services	Scheduled for a Public Hearing	Pass
4/21/2005	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
4/21/2005	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report	Pass
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

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: President Dixon
At the request of: Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning
c/o Ruth Ann Norton, Executive Director
Address: 2714 Hudson Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21224
Telephone: 410-534-6447 or 800-370-LEAD

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
Task Force on Lead Hazard Inspection, Enforcement, and Abatement

FOR the purpose of establishing a task force to review Baltimore City's inspection, enforcement, and abatement laws and regulations that address the issue of lead paint and other lead-related hazards in structures throughout the metropolitan area; to determine if enforcement protocols and practices are adequate to address the scope of lead contaminated properties; to identify measures to better coordinate enforcement activity both within and between agencies; and to ascertain if lead enforcement responsibilities are assigned to the appropriate agency.
Body
Recitals

The Maryland Department of the Environment reports that hundreds of children throughout Maryland are diagnosed with lead poisoning each year. In Baltimore, over the last 3 years 5,300 young children were diagnosed with lead levels greater than 10 micrograms per deciliter, a level identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as cause for alarm. A child can be poisoned by ingesting an amount of lead the size of 3 granules of sugar.

In children, lead poisoning can cause learning disabilities, violent behavior, lowered IQ, juvenile delinquency, seizures, s...