Bill Text: TX HB2478 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 2478

Bill Title: Relating to newborn and infant screening tests.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-12 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB2478 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB2478-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 2478




	AN ACT
	relating to newborn and infant screening tests.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 33, Health and Safety
	Code, is amended by adding Section 33.020 to read as follows:
	Sec. 33.020. ANNUAL REPORT. (a) For each newborn screening
	test that screens for a disorder included in the list of core
	conditions described by Section 33.011(a-1) that is not required by
	the department, the department shall, not later than September 1 of
	each year, prepare and submit a written report to the governor, the
	lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives,
	and each standing committee of the legislature having primary
	jurisdiction over the department. The written report must:
	(1) identify any additional program capacity or
	resources the department would need to:
	(A) implement the additional newborn screening
	test; and
	(B) require each newborn in the state to receive
	the additional newborn screening test; and
	(2) summarize the plan for implementing and requiring
	the additional newborn screening test, including by identifying:
	(A) any potential barriers to implementation;
	and
	(B) the anticipated implementation date.
	(b) As part of the plan described by Subsection (a)(2), the
	report must include information on whether the department is
	capable of implementing the required additional newborn screening
	test within a 24-month period.
	SECTION 2. Section 33.052, Health and Safety Code, is
	amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows:
	(a-1) The department may use money appropriated under
	Subsection (a) to ensure that the laboratory established by the
	department or a laboratory approved by the department under Section
	33.016 is available seven days a week to perform screening tests
	required by the department under Section 33.011.
	SECTION 3. Chapter 47, Health and Safety Code, is amended by
	adding Section 47.0032 to read as follows:
	Sec. 47.0032. TESTING FOR CONGENITAL CYTOMEGALOVIRUS. (a)
	In this section, "congenital cytomegalovirus" has the meaning
	assigned by Section 46.001.
	(b) If a newborn or infant does not pass the hearing
	screening performed under Section 47.003, the program that
	performed the screening shall perform or cause to be performed a
	test for congenital cytomegalovirus on the newborn or infant unless
	the newborn's or infant's parent declines the test.
	(c) If the newborn or infant receives a positive test for
	congenital cytomegalovirus, the entity that performed the test
	shall provide the newborn's or infant's parents with:
	(1) the results of the test;
	(2) information on the potential effects of congenital
	cytomegalovirus and the available treatment options; and
	(3) a referral to an appropriate physician or facility
	for the treatment of congenital cytomegalovirus.
	SECTION 4. Section 33.054, Health and Safety Code, is
	repealed.
	SECTION 5. Section 47.0032, Health and Safety Code, as
	added by this Act, applies only to a newborn or infant hearing
	screening performed on or after the effective date of this Act.
	SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 2478 was passed by the House on April
	28, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 148, Nays 0, 1 present, not
	voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 2478 was passed by the Senate on May
	23, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: _____________________
	Date

	_____________________
	Governor