Sec. 19a-111g. Pediatric screening and risk assessment for lead poisoning. Duties of primary care provider. Exemption. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 19a-111g. Pediatric screening and risk assessment for lead poisoning. Duties of primary care provider. Exemption. (a) Each primary care provider giving pediatric care in this state, excluding a hospital emergency department and its staff: (1) Shall conduct lead screening at least annually for each child nine to thirty-five months of age, inclusive, in accordance with the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Screening Advisory Committee recommendations for childhood lead screening in Connecticut; (2) shall conduct lead screening for any child thirty-six to seventy-two months of age, inclusive, who has not been previously screened or for any child under seventy-two months of age, if clinically indicated as determined by the primary care provider in accordance with the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Screening Advisory Committee recommendations for childhood lead screening in Connecticut; (3) shall conduct a medical risk assessment at least annually for each child thirty-six to seventy-one months of age, inclusive, in accordance with the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Screening Advisory Committee recommendations for childhood lead screening in Connecticut; (4) may conduct a medical risk assessment at any time for any child thirty-six months of age or younger who is determined by the primary care provider to be in need of such risk assessment in accordance with the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Screening Advisory Committee recommendations for childhood lead screening in Connecticut.

      (b) The requirements of this section do not apply to any child whose parents or guardians object to blood testing as being in conflict with their religious tenets and practice.

      (June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-2, S. 48.)

      History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-2 effective January 1, 2009.