AB 2278

Bill Subjects

Abstract

Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to maintain an electronic database to support electronic laboratory reporting of blood lead tests, management of lead-exposed children, and assessment of sources of lead exposures. Existing law requires a laboratory that performs a blood lead analysis on human blood drawn in California to report specified information, including the test results and the name, birth date, and address of the person tested, to the department for each analysis on every person tested. Existing law authorizes the department to share the information reported by a laboratory with, among other entities, the State Department of Health Care Services for the purpose of determining whether children enrolled in Medi-Cal are being screened for lead poisoning and receiving appropriate related services. This bill also would additionally require a laboratory that performs a blood lead analysis to report to the department, among other things, the Medi-Cal identification number and medical plan identification number, if available, for each analysis on every person tested.