Indiana

Establishes the prenatal substance use prevention program within the state department of health to help prevent poor birth outcomes by helping to decrease or eliminate the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs during pregnancy.

Section 6. IC 16-38-4-8, as amended by p.l.11-2002, section 1, is amended to read as follows (effective July 1, 2004): Sec. 8. (a) The state department shall establish a birth problems registry for the purpose of recording all cases of birth problems that occur in Indiana residents and compiling necessary and appropriate information concerning those cases, as determined by the state department, in order to:…(2) inform the parents of children with birth problems:…(B) if a birth problem is diagnosed during a physician or hospital visit that occurs before the child is:…(II) five (5) years of age at the time of diagnosis if the disorder is a pervasive developmental disorder or a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder;…(b) The state department shall record in the birth problems registry:…(2) any additional information that may be provided by an individual or entity described in section 7(a)(2) of this chapter concerning a birth problem that is:…(B) recognized:…(ii) before the child is five (5) years of age if the child is diagnosed with a pervasive developmental disorder or a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder;