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Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Fee
Health and Safety Code
Division 103. Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Part 5. Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
Chapter 5. Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention
Section 105300
105300. Regulatory authority of departments. Notwithstanding Section 124130, the department shall have broad regulatory authority to fully implement and effectuate the purposes of this chapter. The authority shall include, but is not limited to, the following:
(a) The development of protocols to be utilized in screening and the procedures for changing those protocols when more accurate or efficient technologies become available.
(b) The designation of laboratories which are qualified to analyze whole blood specimens for concentrations of lead and the monitoring of those laboratories for accuracy.
(c) The development of reporting procedures by laboratories.
(d) The reimbursement for state-sponsored services related to screening and appropriate case management.
(e) The establishment of lower concentrations of lead in whole blood than those specified by the United States Centers for Disease Control for the purpose of determining the existence of lead poisoning.
(f) The establishment of lower acceptable levels of the concentration of lead in whole blood than those specified by the United States Centers for Disease Control for the purpose of determining the need to provide appropriate case management for lead poisoning.
(g) The development of appropriate case management protocols.
(h) The notification to the child's parent or guardian of the results of blood lead testing and environmental assessment.
(i) The establishment of a periodicity schedule for evaluation for childhood lead poisoning.
History—Stats. 2018, Ch. 690 (SB 1041), in effect January 1, 2019, added "The" at beginning of sentence, and substituted "reimbursement" for "Reimbursement" in subdivision (d), added "The" at beginning of sentence, substituted "establishment" for "Establishment", and substituted "States" for "State" in subdivision (e), added "The" at beginning of sentence, and substituted "establishment" for "Establishment" in subdivision (f), added "The" at beginning of sentence, and substituted "development" for "Development" in subdivision (g), added "The" at beginning of sentence, and substituted "notification" for "Notification" in subdivision (h).