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H.B. 363 Maternal and Infant Amendments (2025)

Became lawWritten by Rep. Candice B. Pierucci · carried in the Senate by Sen. Heidi Balderree

  1. Introduced
  2. House committee
  3. House vote
  4. Senate committee
  5. Senate vote
  6. Signed into law

What this bill does

The bill requires state prisons and county jails to test every woman admitted to a correctional facility for pregnancy, and it changes the membership and extends the repeal date of the Correctional Postnatal and Early Childhood Advisory Board. It also requires the state health department to publish a privacy consent form for newborn testing, give it to parents before a newborn heelstick screen, make hearing loss a required newborn test everywhere, and let parents consent to the department's retention of newborn biological samples or genetic data, which the department must otherwise destroy.

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Official description
  • requires the Department of Corrections and the county jails to ensure that each female individual admitted to a correctional facility is tested for pregnancy
  • amends the membership of the Correctional Postnatal and Early Childhood Advisory Board (the board)
  • extends the repeal date of the board
  • requires the Department of Health and Human Services (department) to publish a privacy consent form pertaining to newborn infant testing
  • requires that the privacy consent form be provided to a newborn infant's parent or guardian prior to conducting a newborn infant heelstick screen
  • makes hearing loss a required newborn infant test, regardless of the number of annual births that occur at the hospital or setting where the infant was born
  • provides for giving a parent or guardian the option to consent to the department's retention policy for biological samples or genetic data collected through newborn infant testing
  • requires the department to destroy a biological sample or any genetic data collected through newborn infant testing
  • makes technical changes
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