FIRST REGULAR SESSION

[PERFECTED]

HOUSE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

HOUSE BILL NO. 279

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Reported from the Committee on Children, Families and Health, April 18, 2001, with recommendation that the House Committee Substitute for House Bill No. 279 Do Pass.

Taken up for Perfection April 26, 2001. Bill ordered Perfected and printed.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

0711L.03P

AN ACT

To amend chapter 191, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to supplemental newborn screening.



Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Chapter 191, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 191.332, to read as follows:

191.332. 1. By January 1, 2002, the department of health shall, subject to appropriations, expand the newborn screening requirements in section 191.331 to include potentially treatable or manageable disorders, including cystic fibrosis, galactosemia, biotinidase deficiency, congenital adrenal hyperplasia, maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) and other amino acid disorders, glucose-6-phosphate degydrogenase deficiency (G-6-PD), MCAD and other fatty acid oxidation disorders, methylmalonic acidemia, propionic acidemia, isovaleric acidemia and glutaric acidemia Type I.

2. The department of health may promulgate rules to implement the provisions of this section. No rule or portion of a rule promulgated pursuant to the authority of this section shall become effective unless it has been promulgated pursuant to chapter 536, RSMo.


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