FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 818

93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE SCHAAF.

         Read 1^st time March 17, 2005 and copies ordered printed.

STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk

2094L.01I

AN ACT

To repeal section 191.332, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to newborn screening.

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

            Section A. Section 191.332, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 191.332, to read as follows:

            191.332. 1. By January 1, 2002, the department of health and senior services shall, subject to appropriations, expand the newborn screening requirements in section 191.331 to include potentially treatable or manageable disorders, including but not limited to 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] or glutaric acidemia Type I.

            2. The department of health and senior services 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.