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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="18-508" title_number="18" title_name="Disease Prevention" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Sickle Cell Anemia">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Department, in consultation with the Statewide Steering Committee on Sickle Cell Disease, shall establish and implement a system of providing information on the sickle cell trait or the thalassemia trait to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>An individual who has the sickle cell trait or the thalassemia trait, including as determined through a newborn screening under § 18–502 of this subtitle; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the individual is a minor, the individual’s family.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Department shall include the following in the information provided under subsection (a) of this section:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>How the sickle cell trait or the thalassemia trait impacts the health of an individual with the trait; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>How the sickle cell trait or the thalassemia trait is passed from a parent to a child.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
