Official:Amending Chapter 6-200 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled “Preventive Medicine,” to establish requirements for the testing of blood lead levels in children, all under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsor: Councilmember Reynolds Brown
Introduced: October 25, 2018
Signed: May 23, 2019
: Committee on Public Health and Human Services
Status: Signed into Law, step 4 of 4
This bill requires Philadelphia pediatricians to test children's blood lead levels at specific ages and under certain conditions.
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