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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2nd Session of the 58th Legislature (2022)
HOUSE BILL 3224 By: Roberts (Dustin)
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to public health; requiring newbo rn
screening specimens to be evaluated and reported
within forty-eight hours of collection; providing for
codification; and providing an effectiv e date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1-534.01 of Title 63, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
Any specimen collected pursuant to the newborn screening program
set forth in Sections 1-533 and 1-534 of Title 63 of the Oklahoma
Statutes shall be evaluated by a l aboratory and the results reported
to the screening hospital or physician within forty -eight (48) hours
of the collection of such specimen .
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2022.
58-2-9432 KN 01/04/22