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2025 Delaware Code
Title 16 - Health and Safety
Chapter 8A. UNIVERSAL NEWBORN AND INFANT HEARING SCREENING, TRACKING, AND INTERVENTION
§ 809A. Civil and criminal immunity and penalties.
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16 DE Code § 809A (2025)
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§ 809A. Civil and criminal immunity and penalties.
(a) No physician shall be civilly or criminally liable for failure to conduct hearing screening testing.
(b) No physician or hospital acting in compliance with this chapter shall be civilly or criminally liable for any acts taken in conformity herewith, including without limitation furnishing information required to be furnished hereunder.
(c) A hospital that has not established or implemented an UNHS program in accordance with this chapter shall be subject to sanction by the Division of Public Health as provided by law for licensure violations.
75 Del. Laws, c. 116, § 1; 78 Del. Laws, c. 389, § 1;
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