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House committee approves streamlined newborn‑screening rule; members press for clarity on must/should changes
Summary
The House Health and Welfare rules committee approved temporary and pending changes to newborn‑screening rules (docket 160212‑2401). Staff said the edits remove duplication with statute and modernize language; lawmakers pressed on must→should language, when tests must be taken and where parents/providers should look for guidance.
The House Health and Welfare rules committee voted to adopt temporary and pending rule docket 160212‑2401 on newborn screening, approving language the Department of Health and Welfare described as a modernization and consolidation of long‑standing provisions.
Committee members pressed department staff about several substantive edits, including the replacement of mandatory wording (“must”) with advisory wording (“should”), the removal of language that formerly said specimens must be taken from in‑hospital infants, and the incorporation‑by‑reference update to a newer edition of a laboratory manual.
Catherine Humphrey, maternal and child health section manager, told the committee the changes “modernize and update the language, remove duplication of language and really kind of…
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