Bill Text: OR HB3424 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

Oregon House Bill 3424 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to newborn screenings.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Failed) 2013-07-08 - In committee upon adjournment. [HB3424 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2013-HB3424-Introduced.html



     77th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2013 Regular Session

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LC 1780

                         House Bill 3424

Sponsored by Representatives WEIDNER, KENY-GUYER; Representative
  THOMPSON

                             SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

  Directs Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules requiring
physician or midwife to inform mother or father after birth of
child about benefits of using pulse oximetry to screen infants
for congenital heart disease.

                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to newborn screenings.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1.  { + The Oregon Health Authority shall adopt rules
requiring physicians licensed under ORS chapter 677 and midwives
who are attending a mother at the birth of a child to inform the
mother or father as soon as practicable after the birth of the
child about the benefits of using pulse oximetry to screen
infants for congenital heart disease. + }
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