Title 19a, Title 19a: Public Health and Well-Being

Sec. 19a-39. (Formerly Sec. 19-13c). Protection of wells. The owner of any well which is being constructed or which has been completed shall securely protect or fence the same, and the owner of any well which is no longer used or which has been abandoned shall effectively cover a…

Sec. 19a-4. (Formerly Sec. 19-2a). Commissioner to organize department and adopt regulations. Section 19a-4 is repealed, effective July 1, 1993. (P.A. 77-614, S. 324, 325, 610; P.A. 93-381, S. 38, 39.)

Sec. 19a-40. (Formerly Sec. 19-14). Supervision of vital statistics. The Department of Public Health shall have general supervision of the state system of registration of births, marriages, deaths and fetal deaths, and shall develop the necessary uniform methods and forms for obt…

Sec. 19a-40a. Criminal history records checks required for applicants for employment in the vital records unit. The Commissioners of Public Health and Administrative Services shall require each applicant for employment in, and each employee applying for transfer to, the vital rec…

Sec. 19a-41. (Formerly Sec. 19-15). Compilation of vital records and statistics. Regulations. The Commissioner of Public Health shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, specifying the methods of reporting, recording, issuing, maintaining, indexing…

Sec. 19a-41a. Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Connecticut access to state's birth and death registries. (a) Upon the request of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation or the Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Connecticut, the Department of Public Health …

Sec. 19a-42. (Formerly Sec. 19-15a). Amendment of vital records. (a) To protect the integrity and accuracy of vital records, a certificate registered under chapter 93 may be amended only in accordance with sections 19a-41 to 19a-45, inclusive, chapter 93, regulations adopted by t…

Sec. 19a-42a. Record of acknowledgment, recission or adjudication of parentage to be maintained in parentage registry. Disclosure of information to IV-D agency. Access to copies of acknowledgments of parentage. (a) All (1) voluntary acknowledgments of parentage and rescissions of…

Sec. 19a-42b. Amendment of out-of-state or foreign birth certificate to reflect gender change. Probate court jurisdiction. Application process. (a) In the case of a person who is a resident of this state and was born in another state or in a foreign jurisdiction, the probate cour…

Sec. 19a-42c. Revision of marriage license applications and marriage certificates to replace references to bride and groom and eliminate reference to race or ethnicity. On or before January 1, 2022, the Commissioner of Public Health shall revise the application for a marriage lic…

Sec. 19a-43. (Formerly Sec. 19-15b). Reproduction of vital records. To preserve vital records, the Commissioner of Public Health is authorized to prepare typewritten, photographic, electronic, or other reproductions of certificates or reports in the Department of Public Health. S…

Sec. 19a-44. (Formerly Sec. 19-15c). Matching of birth and death certificates. To protect the integrity of vital records and to prevent the fraudulent use of birth certificates of deceased persons, the Commissioner of Public Health and the local registrars of vital records are he…

Sec. 19a-45. (Formerly Sec. 19-15d). Transmittal of vital records to other states and the United States Department of Health and Human Services. (a) The Department of Public Health may, by agreement, transmit copies of vital records required by sections 7-42, 7-45, 7-46, 7-47b, 7…

Sec. 19a-45a. Memorandum of understanding between the Commissioners of Public Health and Social Services for improving public health services. The Commissioners of Social Services and Public Health shall enter into a memorandum of understanding for the purpose of improving public…

Sec. 19a-45b. Medical home pilot program. On or after January 1, 2007, and within any available federal or private funds, the Commissioner of Public Health, in consultation with the Commissioner of Social Services, may establish a medical home pilot program in one region of the s…

Sec. 19a-45c. Evaluation and report required re medical home pilot program. Not later than one year following the establishment of the medical home pilot program under section 19a-45b, the Commissioner of Public Health, shall evaluate such pilot program to ascertain specific impr…

Sec. 19a-45d. Development of plan to streamline cross-enrollment of children receiving services under HUSKY A in other supplemental nutrition programs. Fact sheet containing eligibility requirements. Report. (a) Not later than January 1, 2025, the Department of Public Health, in …

Sec. 19a-46. (Formerly Sec. 19-17). Expert examinations and inspections. Said department may, from time to time, engage suitable persons to render sanitary service and to make or supervise practical and scientific investigations and examinations requiring expert skill and to prep…

Sec. 19a-47. (Formerly Sec. 19-18). Information to local authorities. Reports to department. Notification of spills. (a) The Department of Public Health shall cause all proper sanitary information in its possession to be forwarded promptly to the local health authorities of any t…

Sec. 19a-48. (Formerly Sec. 19-19). Care for children with cerebral palsy. The Department of Public Health shall furnish services for children who have cerebral palsy or who are suffering from conditions which lead to cerebral palsy, such services to include the locating of such …

Sec. 19a-49. (Formerly Sec. 19-19a). Services for persons with cystic fibrosis. The Department of Public Health shall establish and administer a program of services for children and adults suffering from cystic fibrosis, and for such purpose shall have the same powers as are conf…

Secs. 19a-4a to 19a-4c. Transferred to Chapter 319j, Secs. 17a-674 to 17a-676, inclusive.

Sec. 19a-4i. Office of Injury Prevention. There shall be, within the Department of Public Health, an Office of Injury Prevention, whose purpose shall be to coordinate and expand prevention and control activities related to intentional and unintentional injuries. The duties of sai…

Sec. 19a-4j. Office of Health Equity. (a) There is established, within the Department of Public Health, an Office of Health Equity. The responsibility of the office is to improve the health of all Connecticut residents by working to eliminate differences in disease, disability an…

Sec. 19a-4k. Advisory Commission on Multicultural Health. Section 19a-4k is repealed, effective June 12, 2008. (P.A. 00-216, S. 11, 28; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 00-1, S. 14, 46; P.A. 08-171, S. 2.)

Sec. 19a-4l. Office of Oral Public Health. There is established, within the Department of Public Health, an Office of Oral Public Health. The director of the Office of Oral Public Health shall be (1) a dental health professional with experience in public health and a license to p…

Sec. 19a-5. (Formerly Sec. 19-4). Powers and duties of commissioner. Section 19a-5 is repealed, effective July 1, 1993. (1949, Rev., S. 3801; 1959, P.A. 148, S. 4; 1971, P.A. 282; 1972, P.A. 108, S. 4; P.A. 73-616, S. 14; P.A. 76-436, S. 374, 681; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 342, 610; P…

Sec. 19a-50. (Formerly Sec. 19-20). Children with physical disabilities or cardiac defects. Payment of “clean claims”. (a) The Department of Public Health is designated as the state agency to (1) administer a program of services for children with physical disabilities or who are …

Sec. 19a-51. (Formerly Sec. 19-20a). Pediatric Cardiac Patient Care Fund. There shall be a Pediatric Cardiac Patient Care Fund to be administered by the Department of Public Health and to be used exclusively for medical, surgical, preoperative and postoperative care and hospitali…

Sec. 19a-52. (Formerly Sec. 19-20b). Purchase of equipment for children with physical disabilities or cardiac defects. Notwithstanding any other provision of the general statutes, the Department of Public Health or the department's contractor, in carrying out its powers and dutie…

Sec. 19a-53. (Formerly Sec. 19-21). Birth defects surveillance program. Definitions. Birth defects screenings. Notification. Analyses. Confidentially. Records. Approval of research. Publication of statistical compilations. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Commissioner” means the…

Sec. 19a-54. (Formerly Sec. 19-21a). Registration of children with special health care needs. Each institution supported in whole or in part by the state shall report to the Department of Public Health, on a form prescribed by said department, the name and address of each child u…

Sec. 19a-54a. Registry of data on infants exposed to AIDS medication. Section 19a-54a is repealed, effective October 1, 2016. (June Sp. Sess. P.A. 99-2, S. 32, 72; P.A. 16-87, S. 5.)

Sec. 19a-55. (Formerly Sec. 19-21b). Newborn screening program. Tests required. Report to Department of Public Health. Exemptions. Regulations. (a) There is established a newborn screening program. The Commissioner of Public Health shall (1) administer the newborn screening progr…

Sec. 19a-55a. Newborn screening account. Section 19a-55a is repealed, effective July 1, 2018. (June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-3, S. 4; P.A. 06-188, S. 20; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 678, 728.)

Sec. 19a-55b. Information on newborn infant safe sleep practices. Each hospital, as defined in section 19a-490, through its maternity program, shall provide the parent or parents or the legal guardian of a newborn infant with written informational materials containing the America…

Sec. 19a-56. (Formerly Sec. 19-21c). Program for prevention of erythroblastosis. Section 19a-56 is repealed. (1969, P.A. 734, S. 1; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 90-13, S. 12.)

Secs. 19a-56a and 19a-56b. (Formerly Secs. 10a-132b and 10a-132d). Birth defects surveillance program; collection of birth defects data; advisory committee. Confidentiality of birth defects information; access. Sections 19a-56a and 19a-56b are repealed, effective October 1, 2016.…

Sec. 19a-57. (Formerly Sec. 19-21d). Loans for purchase of hemodialysis treatment machines. Section 19a-57 is repealed, effective October 1, 2016. (P.A. 73-447, S. 1, 2; P.A. 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 16-66, S. 53.)

Sec. 19a-58. (Formerly Sec. 19-21e). Pamphlet concerning hearing impairments in infants. Section 19a-58 is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (P.A. 79-287; P.A. 80-483, S. 78, 186; P.A. 81-205, S. 1, 3; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 00-27, S. 9, 24; S.…

Sec. 19a-59. Program to identify infants who are hard of hearing. (a) Each institution, as defined in section 19a-490, that provides childbirth service shall, not later than July 1, 2000, include a universal newborn hearing screening program as part of its standard of care and sh…

Sec. 19a-59a. Low protein modified food products and amino acid modified preparations for inherited metabolic disease. Prescription required. Purchase by department. (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Inherited metabolic disease” means a disease for which newborn screening is…

Sec. 19a-59b. Maternal and child health protection program. (a) The Commissioner of Public Health shall establish a maternal and child health protection program. He shall contract, for purposes of the program, annually, within available appropriations, with local providers of hea…

Sec. 19a-59c. Administration of federal Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children in the state. The Department of Public Health is authorized to administer the federal Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children in the state, in accor…

Sec. 19a-59d. Penalties for violations of regulations for the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children. The Commissioner of Public Health may, in accordance with regulations adopted pursuant to section 19a-59c, impose a civil penalty of not more than two …

Sec. 19a-59e. Media campaign for the reduction of adolescent pregnancies. Section 19a-59e is repealed, effective October 1, 2018. (P.A. 95-227, S. 1, 2; 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-8, S. 56, 88; P.A. 18-168, S. 85.)