HB466 Alabama 2019 Session

Under existing law, the Alabama Lead Reduction Act of 1997 identifies and reduces the threat to human health posed by exposure to lead.

This bill would amend the Alabama Lead Reduction Act to add definitions, increase regulations relating to lead hazard reductions, increase the authority of the Department of Public Health to conduct lead inspections and enforce the act, and increase penalties for violations of the act.

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.

Relating to lead reduction; to amend Sections 22-37A-2, 22-37A-3, 22-37A-4, 22-37A-5, 22-37A-6, and 22-37A-7, Code of Alabama 1975, to add definitions; to increase regulations relating to lead hazard reductions; to increase the authority of the Department of Public Health to conduct lead inspections and enforce the act; and to increase penalties for violations of the act; to repeal Sections 22-37A-8 and 22-37A-9, Code of Alabama 1975; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended.