The program is now recognized nationally as a model for identifying lead-poisoned children and removing lead hazards from the environment.

But it would also severely limit the ability of lead-poisoned children and their families to bring lawsuits seeking damages from landlords or the city.

And it will severely restrict the ability of the parents of lead-poisoned children to win lawsuits alleging negligence by landlords or the city.

The lawsuit also seeks money for the treatment of lead-poisoned children.

"The urgent question raised by the new standard is, What are we going to do to help the millions of lead-poisoned children?"

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My bill would not tamper with the Department of Health policy ordering full abatement when seriously lead-poisoned children are found in an apartment.

"It is an economically depressed strip of land where 50 percent of the new cases of lead-poisoned children come from."

A model program to reduce lead poisoning is in place in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, the community with the highest number of lead-poisoned children in the city.

Today's vote comes in the wake of litigation that began in 1985 when five Bronx families with lead-poisoned children filed a lawsuit against the city demanding greater protection.