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Introduced in the House on February 7, 2007, to prohibit selling or offering to transfer to a retailer a toy that contains or is coated with a hazardous substance (including lead), is unsanitary or otherwise hazardous to health, or consists in whole or part of a diseased, contaminated, filthy, decomposed or putrid substance. The bill authorizes local health departments to embargo such toys, and establishes penalties of up to a $5,000 fine for a first offense, and up to $50,000 for a third offense

The vote was 107 in favor, 0 opposed and 3 not voting

(House Roll Call 229 at House Journal 65)

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Read all about it. And what's up with lead of chocolate from Mexico manufacturing plants? WOW!

2007 House Bill 4240 (Prohibit sale of toys containing hazardous substance ) (House Roll Call 229) Passed in the House (107 to 0) on June 26, 2007, to prohibit selling or offering to transfer to a retailer a toy that contains or is coated with a hazardous substance (including lead), is unsanitary or otherwise hazardous to health, or consists in whole or part of a diseased, contaminated, filthy, decomposed or putrid substance. The bill authorizes local health departments to embargo such toys, and establishes penalties of up to a $5,000 fine for a first offense, and up to $50,000 for a third offense . [History, Amendments & Comments] The vote was 107 in favor, 0 opposed, and 3 not voting (House Roll Call 229 at House Journal 65) [Comment on this vote | View others' comments] Vote Support Oppose Not Voting Undecided Legislators (Democrat) 100% 0% 0% 58 total votes Legislators (Republican) 94% 0% 5% 52 total votes What do you think? Support Oppose Undecided (logon required) The following legislators supported 2007 House Bill 4240 (Prohibit sale of toys containing hazardous substance ): Accavitti (D) Acciavatti (R) Agema (R) Angerer (D) Ball (R) Bauer (D) Bennett (D) Bieda (D) Booher (R) Brandenburg (R) Brown (D) Byrnes (D) Byrum (D) Calley (R) Casperson (R) Caswell (R) Caul (R) Cheeks (D) Clack (D) Clemente (D) Condino (D) Constan (D) Corriveau (D) Coulouris (D) Cushingberry (D) Dean (D) DeRoche (R) Dillon (D) Donigan (D) Ebli (D) Elsenheimer (R) Emmons (R) Espinoza (D) Farrah (D) Gaffney (R) Garfield (R) Gillard (D) Gonzales (D) Green (R) Griffin (D) Hammel (D) Hammon (D) Hansen (R) Hildenbrand (R) Hood (D) Hoogendyk (R) Hopgood (D) Horn (R) Huizenga (R) Hune (R) Jackson (D) Johnson (D) Jones, Rick (R) Jones, Robert (D) Knollenberg (R) Lahti (D) LaJoy (R) Law, David (R) Law, Kathleen (D) LeBlanc (D) Leland (D) Lemmons (D) Lindberg (D) Marleau (R) Mayes (D) McDowell (D) Meadows (D) Meekhof (R) Meisner (D) Melton (D) Meltzer (R) Miller (D) Moolenaar (R) Moore (R) Moss (R) Nofs (R) Opsommer (R) Palmer (R) Palsrok (R) Pastor (R) Pavlov (R) Pearce (R) Polidori (D) Proos (R) Robertson (R) Rocca (R) Sak (D) Schuitmaker (R) Scott (D) Shaffer (R) Sheen (R) Sheltrown (D) Simpson (D) Smith, Alma (D) Smith, Virgil (D) Spade (D) Stahl (R) Stakoe (R) Steil (R) Tobocman (D) Vagnozzi (D) Valentine (D) Walker (R) Ward (R) Warren (D) Wojno (D) Young (D) The following legislators opposed 2007 House Bill 4240 (Prohibit sale of toys containing hazardous substance ): The following legislators did not vote on 2007 House Bill 4240 (Prohibit sale of toys containing hazardous substance ): Amos (R) Nitz (R) Wenke (R)

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I hope this bill passes. I think the teeth were made in China as I recall.

Having parents go to the trouble of screening "up to 3" toddler toys by channel 8 news is nice and all, but I hope government steps in to prevent the problem from happening in the first place.

What with all the recalls. Recalls are too late if a child has suffered brain damage.

with lead. everything with a battery contains lead. your ipod contains lead. the GOOD news is, lead can't hurt you if you don't eat it. teach your kids not to chew on their toys.

Perhaps the poster below chewed on lead when he/she was little. It would explain a great deal. "you CAN'T ban toys [by Anonymous Citizen on January 12, 2008] about 2007 House Bill 4240 (Prohibit sale of toys containing hazardous substance ) with lead. everything with a battery contains lead. your ipod contains lead. the GOOD news is, lead can't hurt you if you don't eat it. teach your kids not to chew on their toys.

chewed on lead as a child. perhaps your union painter used union supplied paint to paint your union built project, it peeled, and you ate it. it must have been better than the union supplied grub you were fed.

how do you THINK you get lead poisoning? do you think it comes from JUST TOUCHING LEAD? do you think it comes from BREATHING LEAD FUMES? do you think it is because lead gives off some MYSTERIOUS FORM OF RADIATION? i'd like to hear how YOU think you get lead poisoning.

stupid here. explain yourself.

must believe that mere mention of the word LEAD will lead thousands of your brain cells to simply curl up and die. i notice that our 'lead bogeyman' refuses to stop typing on his computer, even though it has nearly a pound of lead involved in it's manufacture, including lead pigment in the paint used to mark the letters on the keyboard. so, lead must not be as big of a threat as he is trying to get us to believe. or is he just immune to it's effects? maybe he comes from a far-away planet with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal man.