71-557.

Department; duties; rules and regulations.

The department shall:

(1) In consultation with a panel of persons having expertise in the field of critical congenital heart disease screening, develop approved methods of critical congenital heart disease screening;

(2) Apply for all available federal funding to carry out the Newborn Critical Congenital Heart Disease Screening Act; and

(3) Adopt and promulgate rules and regulations necessary to implement the act.