2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being › Chapter 368a - Department of Public Health › Section 19a-111g. - Pediatric lead testing and risk assessment. Exemption.

(a) Each primary care provider giving pediatric care in this state, excluding a hospital emergency department and its staff: (1) Shall conduct lead testing at least annually for each child nine to thirty-five months of age, inclusive, in accordance with the Advisory Committee on Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention recommendations for childhood lead screening in Connecticut; (2) shall conduct lead testing at least annually for any child thirty-six to seventy-two months of age, inclusive, determined by the Department of Public Health to be at an elevated risk of lead exposure based on his or her enrollment in a medical assistance program pursuant to chapter 319v or his or her residence in a municipality that presents an elevated risk of lead exposure based on factors, including, but not limited to, the prevalence of housing built prior to January 1, 1960, and the prevalence of children's blood lead levels greater than five micrograms per deciliter; (3) shall conduct lead testing for any child thirty-six to seventy-two months of age, inclusive, who has not been previously tested 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; (4) shall provide, before such lead testing occurs, educational materials or anticipatory guidance information concerning lead poisoning prevention to such child's parent or guardian in accordance with the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Screening Advisory Committee recommendations for childhood lead screening in Connecticut; (5) shall conduct a medical risk assessment at least annually for each child thirty-six to seventy-two months of age, inclusive, in accordance with the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Screening Advisory Committee recommendations for childhood lead screening in Connecticut; and (6) 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; P.A. 14-231, S. 9; P.A. 22-49, S. 3; 22-118, S. 151.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-2 effective January 1, 2009; P.A. 14-231 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “screening” with “testing” and making a conforming change, adding new Subdiv. (3) re educational materials and anticipatory guidance information, redesignating existing Subdiv. (3) re medical risk assessment as Subdiv. (4) and amending same by replacing “seventy-one” with “seventy-two”, and redesignating existing Subdiv. (4) as Subdiv. (5); P.A. 22-49 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing reference to “Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Screening Advisory Committee” with “Advisory Committee on Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention” in Subdiv. (1), adding new Subdiv. (2) re annual lead testing for a child 36 to 72 months of age determined to be at an elevated risk of lead exposure and redesignating existing Subdivs. (2) to (5) as Subdivs. (3) to (6), effective January 1, 2023; P.A. 22-118 made identical changes as P.A. 22-49, effective January 1, 2023.