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SECTION 1370-D
Lead screening of child care, pre-school, pre-kindergarten or kindergarten enrollees
Public Health (PBH) CHAPTER 45, ARTICLE 13, TITLE 10
§ 1370-d. Lead screening of child care, pre-school, pre-kindergarten
or kindergarten enrollees. 1. Except as provided pursuant to regulations
of the department, each child care provider, public and private nursery
school, pre-school, and pre-kindergarten or kindergarten licensed,
certified or approved by any state or local agency shall, prior to or
within three months after initial enrollment of a child under six years
of age, obtain from a parent or guardian of the child evidence that said
child has been screened for lead.

2. Whenever there exists no evidence of lead screening as provided for
in subdivision one of this section or other acceptable evidence of the
child's screening for lead, the child care provider, principal, teacher,
owner or person in charge of the nursery school, pre-school, or
pre-kindergarten or kindergarten shall provide the parent or guardian of
the child with information on lead poisoning in children and lead
poisoning prevention and refer the parent or guardian to a primary care
provider or the local health authority.

3. (a) If any parent or guardian to such child is unable to obtain
lead testing, such person may present such child to the health officer
of the county in which the child resides, who shall then perform or
arrange for the required screening.

(b) The local public health district shall develop and implement a fee
schedule for households with incomes in excess of two hundred percent of
the federal poverty level for lead screening pursuant to section six
hundred six of this chapter, which shall vary depending on patient
household income.