Bill Text: TX SB793 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to newborn hearing screening.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective immediately [SB793 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-SB793-Comm_Sub.html
 
 
  By: Deuell  S.B. No. 793
         (In the Senate - Filed February 25, 2013; March 5, 2013,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human
  Services; March 28, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable
  Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0;
  March 28, 2013, sent to printer.)
 
  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 793 By:  Deuell
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to newborn hearing screening.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 47.003, Health and
  Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
         (a)  A birthing facility, through a program certified by the
  department under Section 47.004, shall perform, either directly or
  through a referral to another program certified under that section
  [transfer agreement], a hearing screening for the identification of
  hearing loss on each newborn or infant born at the facility before
  the newborn or infant is discharged from the facility unless:
               (1)  the parent declines the screening;
               (2)  the newborn or infant is transferred to another
  facility before the screening is performed; [or]
               (3)  the screening has previously been completed; or
               (4)  the newborn was discharged from the birthing
  facility not more than 10 hours after birth and a referral for the
  newborn was made to a program certified under Section 47.004 at
  another birthing facility or operated by a physician or other
  health care provider.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
 
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