HB 2613.E - DIGEST
(AS OF HOUSE 2ND READING 2/14/2008)

Requires all state agencies that purchase cleaning products or services to ensure that cleaning products have properties that minimize potential impacts to human health and the environment consistent with maintenance of the effectiveness of these products for the protection of public health and safety.

Provides the department of general administration, upon renewal of a lease and for all new leases, must require lessors and building managers who provide leased space to state agencies to use environmentally preferred products and practices.

Provides that when procuring cleaning products, state agencies shall purchase environmentally preferred products or document the reasons for selecting nonpreferred products.

Encourages local governments and school districts to review their purchasing and use of cleaning products and select those having properties that minimize potential impacts to human health and the environment consistent with this act.

Requires state agencies to transition to cleaning products having properties that minimize potential impacts to human health and the environment within six months of the effective date of this act in a manner that avoids waste of existing inventories, accommodates establishment of supply chains for new products, enables the training of personnel in appropriate work practices, and allows the phase out of products and practices inconsistent with this act.

Provides nothing in this act prohibits the use of disinfectants, disinfecting cleaners, sanitizers, or any other antimicrobial product regulated by the federal insecticide, fungicide, and rodenticide act (7 U.S.C. Sec. 136 et seq.), provided that the use of these products is in accordance with responsible cleaning procedure requirements.