A health care provider shall have a blood-spot specimen collected for a second screening for the disorders set forth in Regulation .05 of this chapter when the newborn is between 10 and 14 days old.

Authority: Health-General Article, §§13-109, 13-111, and 13-601—13-605, Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date: December 24, 1975 (2:29 Md. R. 1738)

Chapter revised and recodified from COMAR 10.39.01, Testing for Hereditary Metabolic Disorders in the Newborn Child, to COMAR 10.52.12, Screening for Treatable Disorders in the Newborn Child, effective November 20, 1994 (21:23 Md. R. 1934)

Regulations .01— .12, Screening for Treatable Disorders in the Newborn Child, repealed and new Regulations .01— .15, Newborn Screening, adopted as an emergency provision effective January 1, 2009 (36:2 Md. R. 97); adopted permanently effective March 23, 2009 (36:6 Md. R. 490)

Regulation .03B amended effective March 14, 2016 (43:5 Md. R. 385)

Regulation .07E amended effective March 14, 2016 (43:5 Md. R. 385)

Regulation .08B amended effective March 14, 2016 (43:5 Md. R. 385)

Chapter revised effective April 24, 2017 (44:8 Md. R. 404)

Regulation .05B amended effective August 23, 2021 (48:17 Md. R. 669); April 14, 2025 (52:7 Md. R. 321); May 25, 2026 (53:10 Md. R. 454)