Environment & Energy Committee
Filed: 3/14/2007
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 680
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 680 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the | ||||||
5 | Biomonitoring Safety Net Act. | ||||||
6 | Section 5. Findings and purposes. | ||||||
7 | (a) The General Assembly finds all of the following: | ||||||
8 | (1) An estimated 100,000 chemicals are registered for | ||||||
9 | use today in the United States. Another 2,000 chemicals are | ||||||
10 | added each year. | ||||||
11 | (2) Some toxicological screening data exists for only | ||||||
12 | 7% to 10% of these chemicals. More than 90% of these | ||||||
13 | chemicals have never been tested for their effects on human | ||||||
14 | health. Large numbers of these chemicals are found in | ||||||
15 | cosmetics, personal care products, pesticides, food dyes, | ||||||
16 | cleaning products, fuels, and plastics. |
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1 | (3) As a result, people are exposed to chemicals daily. | ||||||
2 | Many of these chemicals persist in the environment or | ||||||
3 | accumulate and remain in body fat and have been shown to be | ||||||
4 | toxic. | ||||||
5 | (4) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has | ||||||
6 | documented the presence of 148 environmental chemicals in | ||||||
7 | the blood and urine of Americans of all ages and races. | ||||||
8 | (b) The purposes of this Act are as follows: | ||||||
9 | (1) for the University of Illinois at Chicago, the | ||||||
10 | Great Lakes Center for Occupational and Environmental | ||||||
11 | Safety and Health, to conduct an environmental contaminant | ||||||
12 | biomonitoring feasibility study that proposes the best way | ||||||
13 | to monitor the presence and concentration of designated | ||||||
14 | chemicals in the bodies of the people of this State; | ||||||
15 | (2) to produce biomonitoring studies that provide data | ||||||
16 | helping scientists, researchers, public health personnel, | ||||||
17 | and community members explore linkages between chemical | ||||||
18 | exposure and health concerns; and | ||||||
19 | (3) to support Illinois public health by establishing | ||||||
20 | trends in chemical exposures, validating modeling and | ||||||
21 | survey methods, supporting epidemiological studies, | ||||||
22 | identifying highly exposed communities, addressing the | ||||||
23 | data gaps between chemical exposures and specific health | ||||||
24 | outcomes, informing health responses to unanticipated | ||||||
25 | emergency exposures, assessing the effectiveness of | ||||||
26 | current regulations, and setting priorities for reform. |
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1 | Section 10. Definitions. As used in this Act: | ||||||
2 | "Agency" means the Illinois Environmental Protection | ||||||
3 | Agency. | ||||||
4 | "Department" means the Department of Public Health. | ||||||
5 | "Program" means the Environmental Contaminant | ||||||
6 | Biomonitoring Program. | ||||||
7 | Section 15. Scientific Guidance Panel. In implementing the | ||||||
8 | Program, the Department and the Agency shall establish a | ||||||
9 | Scientific Guidance Panel. The Directors of the Department and | ||||||
10 | the Agency shall appoint the members of the Panel. The Panel | ||||||
11 | shall be composed of 11 members, whose expertise shall | ||||||
12 | encompass the disciplines of public health, epidemiology, | ||||||
13 | biostatistics, environmental medicine, risk analysis, exposure | ||||||
14 | assessment, developmental biology, laboratory sciences, | ||||||
15 | bioethics, maternal and child health with a specialty in | ||||||
16 | breastfeeding, and toxicology. Members shall be appointed for | ||||||
17 | 2-year terms. Members may be reappointed for additional terms | ||||||
18 | without limitation. Members shall serve until their successors | ||||||
19 | are appointed and have qualified. Vacancies shall be filled in | ||||||
20 | the same manner as the original appointments, and any member so | ||||||
21 | appointed shall serve during the remainder of the term for | ||||||
22 | which the vacancy occurred. The Panel shall meet, at a minimum, | ||||||
23 | 3 times per year. The Agency shall be responsible for staffing | ||||||
24 | and administration of the Panel. Members of the Panel shall be |
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1 | reimbursed for travel and other necessary expenses incurred in | ||||||
2 | the performance of their duties under this Act, but shall not | ||||||
3 | receive a salary or compensation. | ||||||
4 | The Panel shall provide guidance to the University of | ||||||
5 | Illinois at Chicago, the Great Lakes Center for Occupational | ||||||
6 | and Environmental Safety and Health, and make recommendations | ||||||
7 | regarding the design and implementation of the feasibility | ||||||
8 | study, including specific recommendations for chemicals that | ||||||
9 | are priorities for biomonitoring. The Panel shall recommend | ||||||
10 | priority chemicals for inclusion in the Program using all of | ||||||
11 | the following criteria: | ||||||
12 | (1) The degree of potential exposure to the public or | ||||||
13 | specific subgroups, including, but not limited to, certain | ||||||
14 | occupations. | ||||||
15 | (2) The likelihood of a chemical being a carcinogen or | ||||||
16 | toxicant based on peer-reviewed health data, its chemical | ||||||
17 | structure, or the toxicology of chemically related | ||||||
18 | compounds. | ||||||
19 | (3) The limits of laboratory detection for the | ||||||
20 | chemical, including the ability to detect the chemical at | ||||||
21 | levels low enough to be expected in the general population. | ||||||
22 | (4) Any other criteria the Panel deems significant. | ||||||
23 | The Panel may recommend additional designated chemicals | ||||||
24 | not included in the National Report on Human Exposure to | ||||||
25 | Environmental Chemicals for inclusion in the Program using all | ||||||
26 | of the following criteria: |
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1 | (A) Exposure or potential exposure to the public or | ||||||
2 | specific subgroups. | ||||||
3 | (B) The known or suspected health effects resulting | ||||||
4 | from some level of exposure based on peer-reviewed | ||||||
5 | scientific studies. | ||||||
6 | (C) The need to assess the efficacy of public health | ||||||
7 | actions to reduce exposure to a chemical. | ||||||
8 | Section 20. Feasibility study report. Two years after the | ||||||
9 | effective date of this Act, the University of Illinois at | ||||||
10 | Chicago, the Great Lakes Center for Occupational and | ||||||
11 | Environmental Safety and Health, shall submit a report to the | ||||||
12 | Governor and the General Assembly containing findings of the | ||||||
13 | feasibility study and shall include in the report recommended | ||||||
14 | activities and estimated costs of establishing an Illinois | ||||||
15 | Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program.".
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