I 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4694 
To amend the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992 
to define environmental intervention blood lead level, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 3, 2016 
Mr. ELLISON (for himself, Mr. QUIGLEY, Mrs. LAWRENCE, and Mr. KILDEE) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Fi-
nancial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Com-
merce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduc-
tion Act of 1992 to define environmental intervention 
blood lead level, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Lead-Safe Housing 
for Kids Act of 2016’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act— 
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(1) the term ‘‘Department’’ means the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development; 
(2) the term ‘‘housing receiving Federal assist-
ance’’— 
(A) means housing that— 
(i) except as provided in subparagraph 
(B), is covered by an application for mort-
gage insurance from the Department; 
(ii) receives housing assistance pay-
ments under a program administered by 
the Department; or 
(iii) otherwise receives more than 
$5,000 in project-based assistance under a 
Federal housing program administered by 
a Federal agency other than the Depart-
ment; and 
(B) does not include— 
(i) single-family housing covered by an 
application for mortgage insurance from 
the Federal Housing Administration; or 
(ii) multi-family housing that— 
(I) is covered by an application 
for mortgage insurance from the Fed-
eral Housing Administration; and 
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(II) does not receive any other 
Federal housing assistance; 
(3) the term ‘‘public housing agency’’ means an 
agency described in section 3(b)(6) of the United 
States 
Housing 
Act 
of 
1937 
(42 
U.S.C. 
1437a(b)(6)); and 
(4) the term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary 
of Housing and Urban Development. 
SEC. 3. UPDATES TO LEAD-CONTAMINATED DUST AND 
LEAD-CONTAMINATED SOIL STANDARDS. 
(a) EPA REGULATIONS.—Not later than 120 days 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator 
of the Environmental Protection Agency, in consultation 
with the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention, shall promulgate regulations to update the 
standards for lead-contaminated dust and lead-contami-
nated soil under part 745 of title 40, Code of Federal Reg-
ulations, in accordance with health-based standards. 
(b) HUD REGULATIONS.—The Secretary shall 
promptly promulgate regulations to update the standards 
for lead-contaminated dust and lead-contaminated soil 
under part 35 of title 24, Code of Federal Regulations, 
in accordance with the regulations promulgated by the Ad-
ministrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under 
subsection (a). 
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