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SENATE BILL 242
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CF HB 109
By: Senator Hershey Senators Hershey, Beidle, Benson, and Klausmeier
Introduced and read first time: January 14, 2022
Assigned to: Finance
Committee Report: Favorable with amendments
Senate action: Adopted
Read second time: February 12, 2022
CHAPTER ______
AN ACT concerning 1
Maryland Department of Health – System for Newborn Screening – 2
Requirements 3
FOR the purpose of requiring the system for newborn screening in the Maryland 4
Department of Health to include screening for each core condition listed in the U.S. 5
Department of Health and Human Services’ Recommended Uniform Screening 6
Panel; and generally relating to the system for newborn screening. 7
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments, 8
Article – Health – General 9
Section 13–111 10
Annotated Code of Maryland 11
(2019 Replacement Volume and 2021 Supplement) 12
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 13
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 14
Article – Health – General 15
13–111. 16
(a) The Department shall establish a coordinated statewide system for screening 17
all newborn infants in the State for certain hereditary and congenital disorders associated 18
with severe problems of health or development, except when the parent or guardian of the 19
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(b) Except as provided in § 13–112 of this subtitle, the Department’s public health 1
laboratory is the sole laboratory authorized to perform tests on specimens from newborn 2
infants collected to screen for hereditary and congenital disorders as determined under 3
subsection (d)(2) of this section. 4
(c) The system for newborn screening shall include: 5
(1) Laboratory testing and the reporting of test results; and 6
(2) Follow–up activities to facilitate the rapid identification and treatment 7
of an affected child. 8
(d) In consultation with the State Advisory Council on Hereditary and Congenital 9
Disorders, the Department shall: 10
(1) Establish protocols for a health care provider to obtain and deliver test 11
specimens to the Department’s public health laboratory; 12
(2) Determine the screening tests that the Department’s public health 13
laboratory is required to perform; 14
(3) Maintain a coordinated statewide system for newborn screening that 15
carries out the purpose described in subsection (c) of this section that includes: 16
(i) Communicating the results of screening tests to the health care 17
provider of the newborn infant; 18
(ii) Locating newborn infants with abnormal test results; 19
(iii) Sharing newborn screening information between hospitals, 20
health care providers, treatment centers, and laboratory personnel; 21
(iv) Delivering needed clinical, diagnostic, and treatment 22
information to health care providers, parents, and caregivers; and 23
(v) Notifying parents and guardians of newborn infants that 24
laboratories other than the Department’s public health laboratory are authorized to 25
perform postscreening confirmatory or diagnostic tests on newborn infants for hereditary 26
and congenital disorders; and 27
(4) Adopt regulations that set forth the standards and requirements for 28
newborn screening for hereditary and congenital disorders that are required under this 29
subtitle, including: 30
(i) Performing newborn screening tests; 31
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(ii) Coordinating the reporting, follow–up, and treatment activities 1
with parents, caregivers, and health care providers; and 2
(iii) Establishing fees for newborn screening that do not exceed an 3
amount sufficient to cover the administrative, laboratory, and follow–up costs associated 4
with the performance of screening tests under this subtitle. 5
(e) (1) (I) NOTWITHSTANDING ANY O THER PROVISION OF LA W, THE 6
DEPARTMENT SHALL SCRE EN FOR EACH CORE CONDITION LISTED IN THE U.S. 7
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES’ RECOMMENDED UNIFORM 8
SCREENING PANEL. 9
(II) ON OR AFTER JANUARY 1, 2023, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL 10
INCLUDE IN THE SYSTE M FOR NEWBORN SCREEN ING ANY CORE OR SECONDARY 11
CONDITION ADDED TO T HE RECOMMENDED UNIFORM SCREENING PANEL WITHIN 2 12
YEARS AFTER THE ADDI TION OF THE CONDITIO N TO THE PANEL. 13
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the Secretary of Health 14
and Human Services issues federal recommendations on critical congenital heart disease 15
screening of newborns, the Department shall adopt the federal screening recommendations. 16
(f) (1) The Secretary shall pay all fees collected under the provisions of this 17
subtitle to the Comptroller. 18
(2) The Comptroller shall distribute the fees to the Newborn Screening 19
Program Fund established under § 13–113 of this subtitle. 20
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect 21
October 1, 2022. 22
Approved:
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Governor.
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President of the Senate.
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Speaker of the House of Delegates.