Georgia Code
Chapter 12 - Control of Hazardous Conditions, Preventable Diseases, and Metabolic Disorders
§ 31-12-2. Reporting Certain Diseases and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome; Confidentiality; Reporting Required of Pharmacists; Immunity From Liability as to Information Supplied; Notification of Potential Bioterrorism

(a.1) (1) As used in this subsection, the term “neonatal abstinence syndrome” means a group of physical problems that occur in a newborn infant who was exposed to addictive illegal or prescription drugs while in the mother’s womb.
(2) The department shall require notice and reporting of incidents of neonatal abstinence syndrome. A health care provider, coroner, or medical examiner, or any other person or entity the department determines has knowledge of diagnosis or health outcomes related, directly or indirectly, to neonatal abstinence syndrome shall report incidents of neonatal abstinence syndrome to the department. The department shall provide an annual report to the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the chairperson of the House Committee on Health and Human Services, and the chairperson of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee. Such annual report shall include any department findings and recommendations on how to reduce the number of infants born with neonatal abstinence syndrome.
History. Code 1933, § 88-1202, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1; Ga. L. 1982, p. 1077, §§ 2, 4; Ga. L. 2002, p. 1386, § 6; Ga. L. 2017, p. 319, § 4-1/HB 249.
The 2017 amendment, effective July 1, 2017, added subsection (a.1).
Code Commission notes.
Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1996, the hyphen was deleted from “good faith” in subsection (b) (now subsection (d)).
Law reviews.
For note on the 2002 amendment of this Code section, see 19 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 1 (2002).
For article on the 2017 amendment of this Code section, see 34 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 143 (2017).
For article, “Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996: Health: Discussing Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, Relating to the Notification of Disease and the Control of Hazardous Conditions, Preventable Diseases, and Metabolic Disorders & Public Welfare: Discussing Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Relating to the Department of Health and Human Services, and Administrative Data Standards and Related Requirements,” see 37 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 153 (2020).

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