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advocates. The Department shall be responsible for distributing
the form to physicians and institutions.

(d) The Department shall establish a central registry to
compile information about disabled individuals with reportable
conditions.

(e) (1) Within 15 days of receiving a report of an
individual with a reportable condition, the Department shall
notify the individual or the individual's parent or guardian of
any assistance or services that may be available from the State
and of the eligibility requirements for such assistance or
services.

(2) Upon request, the Department shall refer the
individual to appropriate divisions of the Department and other
agencies, public or private, which provide rehabilitation
services for persons with reportable conditions.

(3) THE DEPARTMENT SHALL MAKE EACH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
HEALTH AND SOCIAL AGENCY AWARE OF THE REHABILITATION INFORMATION
PROVIDED BY THE DEPARTMENT AND ADVISE THEM HOW TO CONTACT THE
DEPARTMENT TO OBTAIN THE INFORMATION.

[(3)] (4) All other agencies of the State shall
cooperate with the Department to provide available, appropriate
rehabilitation services to an individual with a reportable
condition who meets the eligibility requirements for such
services.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall

take effect July 1, 1986.

Approved May 13, 1986.

CHAPTER 425
(House Bill 199)
AN ACT concerning

Medical Laboratories - Definition

FOR the purpose of altering the definition of medical laboratory

to include examinations performed in connection with the
assessment of human health, nutritional, or medical
conditions; and excluding certain tests or examination's from
the definition of medical laboratory.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,