Bill Text - SB355 (2024)

Relative to newborn screening for cytomegalovirus.


Revision: March 5, 2024, 11:50 a.m.

SB 355-FN - AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

 

02/15/2024   0565s

2024 SESSION

24-2852

05/06

 

SENATE BILL 355-FN

 

AN ACT relative to newborn screening for cytomegalovirus.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Innis, Dist 7; Sen. Birdsell, Dist 19; Sen. Ward, Dist 8; Sen. Carson, Dist 14

 

COMMITTEE: Health and Human Services

 

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

 

This bill directs the department of health and human services to provide information on the importance of early detection of cytomegalovirus (CMV) through the New Hampshire newborn screening program, established in RSA 132:10-a and to provide an update on targeted newborn CMV screening to the oversight committee on health and human services.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

02/15/2024   0565s 24-2852

05/06

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to newborn screening for cytomegalovirus.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1 Department of Health and Human Services; Early Detection of Cytomegalovirus.  The department of health and human services shall provide information on the importance of early detection of cytomegalovirus (CMV) through the New Hampshire newborn screening program, established in RSA 132:10-a, and include an update on targeted newborn CMV screening in New Hampshire to the oversight committee on health and human services, established in RSA 126-A:13, for inclusion in the department’s annual report, pursuant to RSA 132:10-a, IV, on or before March 1, 2025.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

 

LBA

24-2852

Amended 3/5/24

 

SB 355-FN- FISCAL NOTE

AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE (AMENDMENT #2024-0565s)

 

AN ACT relative to newborn screening for cytomegalovirus.

 

FISCAL IMPACT: [   ] State [   ] County [   ] Local [ X ] None

 

METHODOLOGY:

The Department of Health and Human Services states that this bill, as amended by the Senate, will have no fiscal impact.

 

 

AGENCIES CONTACTED:

Department of Health and Human Services