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§8823. Newborn Hearing Screening Advisory Board


Published: 2015

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§8823. Newborn Hearing Screening Advisory Board






The Newborn Hearing Screening Advisory Board, as established in Title 5, section 12004-G,
subsection 14-C, is created to provide oversight and advice on the program. The department
shall provide administrative support services required by the board. [1999, c. 647, §2 (NEW).]








1. Duties. 
The board shall perform the following duties.





A. The board shall oversee the program and advise the commissioner on issues relating
to the program and shall recommend procedures for hearing screening, evaluation, treatment
and intervention services. [1999, c. 647, §2 (NEW).]










B. Beginning January 1, 2001, the board shall report each year to the joint standing
committees of the Legislature having jurisdiction over health and human services matters
and education matters on the program, the percentages of children being screened and
evaluated and those children being offered and receiving intervention and treatment
services. The report must be made available to the public. [1999, c. 647, §2 (NEW).]







[
1999, c. 647, §2 (NEW)
.]








2. Composition of board. 
The board consists of an odd number of members, numbering at least 15, appointed
by the Governor, including but not limited to:





A. An audiologist, a physician, a speech-language pathologist, a nurse, a certified
teacher of the deaf and a person who provides early intervention services to children
who are deaf or hard-of-hearing through the Govenor Baxter School for the Deaf; [1999, c. 647, §2 (NEW).]










B. A person who is culturally deaf, a person who is hard-of-hearing or deaf, a parent
of a child who is culturally deaf, a parent of a child who is hard-of-hearing or deaf
and a parent of a hearing child; and [1999, c. 647, §2 (NEW).]










C. A representative of hospitals, a representative of health carriers, a representative
of the early childhood special education program under Title 20-A, chapter 303 and
a representative of the department. [2005, c. 662, Pt. A, §42 (AMD).]







[
2005, c. 662, Pt. A, §42 (AMD)
.]








3. Reimbursement for expenses. 
Board members may be reimbursed for reasonable and necessary expenses incurred to
attend board meetings but are not entitled to per diem payments.


[
1999, c. 647, §2 (NEW)
.]








4. Funding. 
The department shall provide financial and staff support for the board. The department
shall submit grant proposals for funding the program to the Federal Government under
the federal Newborn and Infant Hearing Screening and Intervention Act of 1999 and
under 42 United States Code, Chapter 7, Subchapter V.


[
1999, c. 647, §2 (NEW)
.]





SECTION HISTORY

1999, c. 647, §2 (NEW).
2005, c. 662, §A42 (AMD).