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SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5494
State of Washington
69th Legislature
2025 Regular Session
By Senate Ways & Means (originally sponsored by Senators Kauffman, Nobles, Saldaña, Salomon, Shewmake, Stanford, Trudeau, and Valdez; by request of Department of Commerce)
READ FIRST TIME 02/28/25.
AN ACT Relating to lead-based paint program capacity improvements; amending RCW 70A.420.010 , 70A.420.020 , 70A.420.040 , 70A.420.050 , 70A.420.070 , 70A.420.080 , 70A.420.060 , and 70A.420.090 ; adding a new section to chapter 70A.420 RCW; prescribing penalties; and repealing RCW 70A.420.030 .
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 70A.420.010 and 2010 c 158 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) The legislature finds that lead hazards associated with lead-based paint represent a significant and preventable environmental health problem. Lead-based paint is the most widespread of the various sources of lead exposure to the public. Census data show that (( one million five hundred sixty thousand )) 1,560,000 homes in Washington state were built prior to 1978 when the sale of residential lead-based paint was banned. These are homes that are believed to contain some lead-based paint.