132:1 Purpose; Instruction. – The department of health and human services may provide instruction, advice and such services as the commissioner may deem necessary for children with special health care needs, and to protect and promote the physical health of women in their child-bearing years and their infants and children. Source. 1921, 151:1. PL […]
132:10 Repealed by 1986, 198:23, XXXI, eff. Aug. 2, 1986. –
132:10-a Newborn Screening Tests Required; Newborn Screening Advisory Committee. – I. The physician, hospital, nurse midwife, midwife, or other health care provider attending a newborn child shall test a newborn child for metabolic disorders. Such tests shall include, but not be limited to, phenylketonuria, galactosemia, homocystinuria, maple syrup urine disease, and hypothyroidism. Additional disorders […]
132:10-aa Newborn Screening; Pulse Oximetry Test Required. – The physician, hospital, nurse midwife, midwife, or other health care provider attending a newborn child shall perform a pulse oximetry screening, according to the recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics, on every newborn child. Source. 2012, 190:3, eff. Aug. 10, 2012.
132:10-b Rulemaking. – The commissioner of the department of health and human services shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to: I. The women, infants, and children program under RSA 132:12-a. II. The prevention of ophthalmia in newborn babies under RSA 132:6. III. Newborn screening tests and how fees for such tests are […]
132:10-c Exception. – The provisions of RSA 132:10-a, 10-aa, and 10-b shall not apply if the parents of such child object thereto. Source. 1965, 48:1. 2012, 190:4, eff. Aug. 10, 2012.
132:10-d Breast-feeding. – Breast-feeding a child does not constitute an act of indecent exposure and to restrict or limit the right of a mother to breast-feed her child is discriminatory. Source. 1999, 121:2, eff. Aug. 9, 1999.
132:10-e Development of a Plan of Safe Care. – When an infant is born with and identified as being affected by substance abuse or withdrawal symptoms resulting from prenatal drug exposure or a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, the health care provider shall develop a plan of safe care, in cooperation with the infant’s parents […]
132:10-f Mandatory Reporting. – When a health care provider suspects that an infant has been abused or neglected pursuant to RSA 169-C:3, the provider shall report to the department of health and human services in accordance with RSA 169-C:29. If the infant has a plan of safe care developed under RSA 132:10-e, a copy […]
132:11 Authorization. – The commissioner of the department of health and human services may: I. Formulate and administer plans for the purposes specified in RSA 132:12 through RSA 132:13 and adopt rules under RSA 541-A to carry out these plans. II. Receive and expend in accordance with such plans funds made available to the […]
132:12 Maternal and Child Health Services. – The division may administer a program of maternal and child health services, and shall supervise those services not administered directly by it. Source. 1937, 58:1. RL 150:12.
132:12-a Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program. – The commissioner of the department of health and human services shall develop and administer a women, infants, and children program within the state under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, in accordance with federal regulations promulgated by the Department of Agriculture and subject to continued funding […]
132:12-b Repealed by 1986, 198:23, XXXII, eff. Aug. 2, 1986. –
132:12-c Repealed by 1986, 198:23, XXXIII, eff. Aug. 2, 1986. –
132:12-d Repealed by 1986, 198:23, XXXIV, eff. Aug. 2, 1986. –
132:12-e Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program Fund. – There is hereby established the women, infants, and children (WIC) fund. The fund shall be composed of food rebates, including but not limited to, infant formula and baby food, purchased under the WIC program established pursuant to this chapter. The fund shall be nonlapsing and […]
132:13 Children With Special Health Care Needs. – I. Services provided for children with special health care needs in accordance with RSA 132:2, X, shall include location, diagnoses, hospitalization, medical, surgical, corrective, and other services and care of such children. II. In this chapter, " children with special health care needs " means children […]
132:14 Limitation of Provisions. – Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as authorizing any public official, agent, or representative, in carrying out any provision of this chapter, to take charge of any child, or to provide services to any child, over the objection of either the father or the mother of such child, […]
132:15 Penalties. – Any person committing a fraud on the women, infants, and children program under RSA 132:12-a shall be charged under RSA 638:15. Any person violating any other provision of this subdivision or any rule adopted under this subdivision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Source. 1911, 121:3. PL 128:11. 1937, 58:2. RL […]
132:16 Repealed by 1986, 198:23, XXXV, eff. Aug. 2, 1986. –
