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1	1	By: Uresti S.B. No. 1720
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4	4	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
5	5	AN ACT
6	6	relating to newborn screening and the creation of the Newborn
7	7	Screening Advisory Committee.
8	8	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
9	9	SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as "Greyson's Law" in
10	10	memory of Greyson Morris.
11	11	SECTION 2. Subsection (a-1), Section 33.011, Health and
12	12	Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
13	13	(a-1) Except as provided by this subsection and to [To] the
14	14	extent funding is available for the screening, the department shall
15	15	require newborn screening tests to screen for disorders listed in
16	16	the core [uniform] panel and in the secondary targets of the uniform
17	17	newborn screening panel [conditions] recommended in the 2005 report
18	18	by the American College of Medical Genetics entitled "Newborn
19	19	Screening: Toward a Uniform Screening Panel and System" or another
20	20	report determined by the department to provide more stringent
21	21	[appropriate] newborn screening guidelines to protect the health
22	22	and welfare of this state's newborns. The department, with the
23	23	advice of the Newborn Screening Advisory Committee, may require
24	24	additional newborn screening tests under this subsection to screen
25	25	for other disorders or conditions. The department may exclude from
26	26	the newborn screening tests required under this subsection
27	27	screenings for galactose epimerase and galactokinase.
28	28	SECTION 3. Subchapter B, Chapter 33, Health and Safety
29	29	Code, is amended by adding Section 33.017 to read as follows:
30	30	Sec. 33.017. NEWBORN SCREENING ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
31	31	(a) The department shall establish the Newborn Screening Advisory
32	32	Committee.
33	33	(b) The advisory committee consists of members appointed by
34	34	the commissioner of state health services. The advisory committee
35	35	must include the following members:
36	36	(1) health care providers;
37	37	(2) a hospital representative;
38	38	(3) persons who have family members affected by a
39	39	condition for which newborn screening is or may be required under
40	40	this subchapter; and
41	41	(4) persons who are involved in the delivery of
42	42	newborn screening services, follow-up, or treatment in this state.
43	43	(c) The advisory committee shall advise the department
44	44	regarding strategic planning, policy, rules, and services related
45	45	to newborn screening and additional newborn screening tests.
46	46	(d) The advisory committee shall adopt bylaws governing the
47	47	committee's operations.
48	48	(e) The advisory committee may appoint subcommittees.
49	49	(f) The advisory committee shall meet at least three times
50	50	each year and at other times at the call of the commissioner of
51	51	state health services.
52	52	(g) A member of the advisory committee is not entitled to
53	53	compensation, but is entitled to reimbursement for travel or other
54	54	expenses incurred by the member while conducting the business of
55	55	the advisory committee, as provided by the General Appropriations
56	56	Act.
57	57	(h) The advisory committee is not subject to Chapter 2110,
58	58	Government Code.
59	59	SECTION 4. (a) As soon as practicable after the effective
60	60	date of this Act, the commissioner of state health services shall
61	61	appoint members to the Newborn Screening Advisory Committee as
62	62	required under Section 33.017, Health and Safety Code, as added by
63	63	this Act.
64	64	(b) Notwithstanding Section 33.011, Health and Safety Code,
65	65	as amended by this Act, a physician or person attending the delivery
66	66	of a newborn child is not required to subject the child to the
67	67	additional newborn screening tests required under Subsection
68	68	(a-1), Section 33.011, Health and Safety Code, as amended by this
69	69	Act, until January 1, 2010.
70	70	SECTION 5. This Act does not make an appropriation. A
71	71	provision in this Act that creates a new governmental program,
72	72	creates a new entitlement, or imposes a new duty on a governmental
73	73	entity is not mandatory during a fiscal period for which the
74	74	legislature has not made a specific appropriation to implement the
75	75	provision.
76	76	SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.