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Conferees approve House substitute for Senate Bill 126, codifying newborn screening changes and increasing health funding
Summary
Conferees approved a House substitute for Senate Bill 126 as amended, adopting statutory language to name an Advanced Universal Newborn Screening Program, authorize reimbursement for PKU medical foods, extend newborn-screening fund transfers, and increase several state health funding lines.
Conferees approved a House substitute for Senate Bill 126 as amended, adopting provisions that would codify newborn screening language in statute and increase several health-related funding lines. The panel approved the measure by voice vote after agreeing to strike a CHIPS-related section and to study CHIP program issues next year.
The chair of the conferees (Chair) said at the outset that three of the four compact bills were already in the budget proviso and that the conferees were signing onto the package. A member of the panel (Conferee) moved to "strike all of section 1," referring to the CHIPS portion of the substitute; the motion to remove that section was incorporated into the final amendment. Legislative…
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