Last Modified: 06/23/2011
State EHDI/UNHS Mandates: Summary Table
This table shows only what is required by the law, which may be different from what states are doing. For example, Rhode Island has one of the best statewide tracking and reporting systems in the country, even though their law does not mention tracking and reporting.
| Summary of Universal Newborn Hearing Screening |
| States |
Year Passed |
Full Implement-
ation by: |
Requires Screening of: |
Advisory Committee Established? |
Covered Benefit of Health Insurance? |
Report to State DOH |
Provision of Educational Materials? |
Informed Consent by Parents? |
Liability Immunity? |
Parental Objection Exclusion? |
Hearing Impairment Defined? |
| Alaska |
2006 |
Jan 1, 2008 |
All Babies |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Arizona |
2007 |
|
|
Yes |
|
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
|
|
| Arkansas |
1999 |
July 1, 2000 |
Hospitals
>50 births |
Yes |
Medicaid |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
Yes |
Yes |
| California |
2006 |
Jan 1, 2008 |
All Babies |
|
Medicaid |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Colorado |
1997 |
July 1, 1999 |
85% of newborns |
Yes |
|
|
Yes |
|
|
|
|
| Connecticut |
1997 |
July 1, 2000 |
All Babies |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
Yes |
|
| Delaware |
2005 |
Oct 7, 2005 |
All Babies |
|
Yes |
|
|
|
Yes |
|
Yes |
| District of Columbia |
2001 |
|
All Babies |
|
Yes |
|
|
Yes |
|
Yes |
Yes |
| Florida |
2000 |
Oct 01, 2000 |
All Babies |
|
Yes |
|
Yes |
|
|
|
Yes |
| Georgia |
1999 |
July 1, 2001 |
95% of newborns |
Yes |
|
|
Yes |
|
|
|
|
| Hawaii |
1990 |
Not Specified |
All Babies |
|
|
Yes |
|
|
|
Yes |
|
| Illinois |
1999 |
Dec 31, 2002 |
All Babies |
Yes |
|
|
Yes |
|
|
Yes |
|
| Indiana |
1999 |
July 1, 2000 |
All Babies |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
Yes |
|
| Iowa |
2003 |
Jan 1, 2004 |
All Babies |
|
|
Yes |
|
|
Yes |
Yes |
|
| Kansas |
1999 |
|
All Babies |
|
|
|
|
Yes |
|
|
|
| Kentucky |
2000 |
|
Hospitals
>40 births |
Yes |
|
Yes |
|
|
|
|
Yes |
| Louisiana |
1999 |
July 1, 2000† |
All Babies |
Yes |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Maine |
1999 |
Nov 01, 2001 |
>85% |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Maryland |
1999 |
July 1, 2000 |
All Babies |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
|
|
| Massachusetts |
1997 |
Not Specified |
All Babies |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
|
Yes |
|
| Minnesota |
2007* |
|
All Babies |
Yes |
|
Yes |
|
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
| Mississippi |
1997 |
Jan 1, 1998 |
All Babies |
Yes |
|
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
|
|
| Missouri |
1999 |
Jan 1, 2002 |
All Babies |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
Yes |
|
| Montana |
2001 |
June 30, 2003 |
All Babies |
Yes |
|
Yes |
|
|
|
|
|
| Nebraska |
2000 |
Dec 01, 2003 |
>95% |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
Yes |
|
| Nevada |
2000 |
Jan 1, 2001 |
Hospitals
> 500 |
|
|
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
Yes |
|
| New Hampshire |
2000 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| New Jersey |
2000 |
Jan 1, 2002 |
All Babies |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
Yes |
| New Mexico |
2001 |
|
All Babies |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| New York |
1999 |
NotSpecified |
Hospitals >400 births |
|
|
Yes |
|
|
|
|
Yes |
| North Carolina |
1999 |
Not Specified |
All Babies |
|
|
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
Yes |
|
| Ohio |
2002 |
June 30, 2004 |
All Babies |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
|
Yes |
Yes |
| Oklahoma |
2000 |
|
All |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Oregon |
1999 |
July 1, 2000 |
Hospitals
>200 births |
Yes |
|
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
Yes |
|
| Pennsylvania |
2001 |
July 1, 2003 |
85% of newborns |
Yes |
|
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
|
|
| Rhode Island |
1992 |
July 1, 1993 |
All Babies |
|
Yes |
|
|
|
|
Yes |
|
| South Carolina |
2000 |
June 30, 2001 |
Hospitals
>100 births |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
|
Yes |
| Tennessee |
2008 |
July 1, 2008 |
All Newborns |
|
Yes, after July 2008 |
|
|
|
|
Religious Tenets |
Yes |
| Texas |
1999 |
April 1, 2001 |
Hospitals
>100 births |
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Yes |
| Utah |
1998 |
July 1, 1999 |
All Babies |
Yes |
|
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
|
Yes |
| Virginia |
1998 |
July 1, 2000 |
All Babies |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
Yes |
|
| West Virginia |
1998 |
July 1, 2000 |
All Babies |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
|
|
|
| Wisconsin |
1999 |
July 1, 2003 |
88% of newborns |
|
|
Yes |
|
|
|
|
Yes |
| Wyoming |
1999 |
July 1, 1999 |
All Babies |
|
|
|
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
|
† Date rules are to be adopted by the state. No mention is made in the law of when full implementation must occur.
Note: This table shows only what is required by the law, which may be different from what states are doing. For example, Rhode Island has one of the best statewide tracking and reporting systems in the country, even though their law does not mention tracking and reporting.
