Legislation Requiring Childhood Screening for Lead Exposure Passes Committee
Sacramento – Assemblymember Eloise Reyes (D-San Bernardino legislation, AB 2276, passed the Health Committee by unanimous vote. AB 2276 was introduced in response to a State Auditor’s Report, Childhood Lead Levels: Millions of Children in Medi-Cal Have Not Received Required Testing for Lead Poisoning that revealed over a million children in the Medi-Cal Program have not been properly screened for lead exposure.