House Bill hb0817c2

    Florida House of Representatives - 2002           CS/CS/HB 817

        By the Council for Healthy Communities and Committee on
    Health Regulation and Representatives Sobel and Siplin





  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to newborn infant screening;

  3         authorizing formation of a study group under

  4         Children's Medical Services of the Department

  5         of Health; providing purpose; providing

  6         membership; requiring recommendations and a

  7         plan for newborn infant screening requirements;

  8         requiring consideration of the costs of

  9         expansion and testing; requiring a report;

10         providing an effective date.

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12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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14         Section 1.  Children's Medical Services of the

15  Department of Health is authorized to convene a study group

16  for the purpose of conducting comparative research regarding

17  the infant screening programs currently operating in other

18  states. The study group shall consist of members of the

19  Genetics and Infant Screening Advisory Council designated by

20  the Secretary of Health, a representative designated by the

21  Florida Hospital Association, a representative designated by

22  the Florida Statutory Teaching Hospital Council, Inc., and a

23  representative from the Florida chapter of the March of Dimes.

24  The study group shall operate under the auspices of Children's

25  Medical Services. Based on data available from the states

26  operating infant screening programs, the study group shall

27  make recommendations regarding the newborn infant screening

28  requirements provided in s. 383.14, Florida Statutes, and

29  shall develop a newborn infant screening plan tailored to the

30  needs of Florida's population. The study group shall also

31  consider the cost of current testing, the cost of expansion of

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2002           CS/CS/HB 817

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  1  the screening requirements in s. 383.14, Florida Statutes,

  2  appropriate mechanisms for reimbursing the cost of testing,

  3  and the appropriate location for such testing. The study

  4  group's research shall be completed by August 1, 2002, and its

  5  recommendations and plan shall be submitted to the Governor,

  6  the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of

  7  Representatives by September 1, 2002.

  8         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

  9  law.

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