2016 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 44 - Health
CHAPTER 8 - COMMUNITY ORAL HEALTH COORDINATOR
Section 44-8-10. Targeted community program for dental health education, screening, and treatment referral in public schools; coordination of efforts; promulgation of regulations; Acknowledgment of Dental Screening.

The Department of Health and Environmental Control shall implement a targeted community program for dental health education, screening, and treatment referral in the public schools for children in kindergarten, third, seventh, and tenth grades or upon entry into a South Carolina school. The department shall target three to five counties of need. The program must seek collaboration from local school districts, other governmental entities, school nurses, and dentists to coordinate federal Medicaid assistance and any volunteer efforts to reduce costs to the State to the extent practicable. Program guidelines must be promulgated in regulations and must include procedures for screenings and for the issuance of an Acknowledgment of Dental Screening for a child indicating that the child has had the dental screening. These guidelines also must provide that the screenings required by this section be made by an authorized provider at no charge.

HISTORY: 2010 Act No. 235, Section 1, eff July 1, 2010.

Editor's Note

2010 Act No. 235, Section 3, provides as follows:

"This act takes effect July 1, 2010, and applies to students in the grade levels specified in Section 44-8-30 of the 1976 Code, as added by Section 1 of this act, no later than the 2011-2012 school year, contingent upon regulations authorized in Section 44-8-10 of the 1976 Code, as added by Section 1 of this act, being effective and funding for this program being available to the Department of Health and Environmental Control."