A bill to amend the Lead Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Act, and for other purposes.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to units of general local government for the purpose of assisting such units in developing and carrying out local programs to detect and treat incidents of lead-based paint poisoning, such grants not to exceed ninety percent of the program (presently seventy-five percent). Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in consultation with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, to develop and carry out a demonstration and research program to determine the nature and extent of the problem of lead based paint poisoning in the United States, particularly in urban areas, including the methods by which the lead based paint hazard can most effectively be removed from interior surfaces, porches, and exterior surfaces of residential housing to which children may be exposed. Directs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish procedures to eliminate as far as practicable the hazards of lead based paint poisoning with respect to any existing housing which may present such hazards and which is covered by an application for mortgage insurance or housing assistance payments under a progr…