2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 19a-110. (Formerly Sec. 19-65e). Report of lead poisoning. Availability of information regarding lead poisoning.

      Sec. 19a-110. (Formerly Sec. 19-65e). Report of lead poisoning. Availability of information regarding lead poisoning. (a) Each institution licensed under the provisions of sections 19a-490 to 19a-503, inclusive, and each private clinical laboratory licensed under section 19a-30 shall, within forty-eight hours of receipt of knowledge thereof, report to the Commissioner of Public Health, and to the director of health of the town, city or borough in which the person resides: (1) The name, full residence address, date of birth, gender, race and ethnicity of each person found to have a level of lead in the blood equal to or greater than ten micrograms per deciliter of blood or any other abnormal body burden of lead; (2) the name, address and telephone number of the health care provider who ordered the test; (3) the sample collection date, analysis date, type and blood lead analysis result; and (4) such other information as the commissioner may require. Any institution or laboratory making an accurate report in good faith shall not be liable for the act of disclosing said report to the commissioner or to the director of health. The commissioner, after consultation with the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Information Technology, shall determine the method and format of transmission of data contained in said report.

      (b) Each institution or laboratory that conducts lead testing pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall, at least monthly, submit to the Commissioner of Public Health a comprehensive report that includes: (1) The name, full residence address, date of birth, gender, race and ethnicity of each person tested pursuant to subsection (a) of this section regardless of the level of lead in the blood; (2) the name, address and telephone number of the health care provider who ordered the test; (3) the sample collection date, analysis date, type and blood lead analysis result; (4) laboratory identifiers; and (5) such other information as the commissioner may require. Any institution or laboratory making an accurate report in good faith shall not be liable for the act of disclosing said report to the commissioner. The commissioner, after consultation with the Chief Information Officer, shall determine the method and format of transmission of data contained in said report.

      (c) Whenever an institutional laboratory or private clinical laboratory conducting blood lead tests pursuant to this section refers a blood lead sample to another laboratory for analysis, the laboratories may agree on which laboratory will report in compliance with subsections (a) and (b) of this section, but both laboratories shall be accountable to insure that reports are made. The referring laboratory shall insure that the requisition slip includes all of the information that is required in subsections (a) and (b) of this section and that this information is transmitted with the blood specimen to the laboratory performing the analysis.

      (d) The director of health of the town, city or borough shall provide or cause to be provided, to the parent or guardian of a child reported, pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, with information describing the dangers of lead poisoning, precautions to reduce the risk of lead poisoning and laws and regulations concerning lead abatement. Said information shall be developed by the Department of Public Health and provided to each local and district director of health.

      (1971, P.A. 22, S. 1; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 87-394, S. 1, 7; P.A. 92-192, S. 1, 5; P.A. 93-321, S. 1, 6; 93-381, S. 9, 39; 93-435, S. 59, 95; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-9, S. 23, 50; P.A. 98-66.)

      History: P.A. 77-614 replaced commissioner of health with commissioner of health services, effective January 1, 1979; Sec. 19-65e transferred to Sec. 19a-110 in 1983; P.A. 87-394 substituted ".025" for ".04" milligrams in lead level measurement; P.A. 92-192 deleted requirement that practitioners of the healing arts report increased blood lead levels, deleted requirement of reports for suspected increase in blood lead level, changed reportable lead level from .025 milligrams per one hundred grams to ten micrograms per deciliter and added the requirement that the commissioner shall determine the method of transmission of data after consultation with the executive director of the office of information and technology; P.A. 93-321 added new Subsec. (b) requiring health directors to provide information to parents and guardians of children reported; P.A. 93-381 and P.A. 93-435 replaced commissioner of health services with commissioner of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-9 amended Subsec. (a) by substituting "Chief Information Officer" for "executive director of the Office of Information and Technology", effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 98-66 amended Subsec. (a) by changing "registered" laboratories to "licensed" laboratories, changing "address" to "full residence address", replacing "such other relevant information as said commissioner may require" with "gender, race and ethnicity", adding Subdivs. (2), (3) and (4), replacing "such a report" with "an accurate report", deleting immunity from civil or criminal liability and adding "not liable for the act of disclosing said report to the commissioner or to the director of health", made a technical change re title of Chief Information Officer and required commissioner to determine "format" as well as method, added new Subsecs. (b) and (c) and relettered Subsec. (b) as (d).