(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 Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Screening Advisory Committee recommendations for childhood lead screening in Connecticut; (2) 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; (3) 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; (4) 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 (5) 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.)

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).