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Senate Bill 1404 |
Senate Author: Powell |
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Effective: 9-1-19 |
House Sponsor: Klick |
Senate Bill 1404 amends the Health and Safety Code to require the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) to create a process to permit the parent, managing conservator, or guardian of a newborn child to provide consent to and share information from screenings for certain heritable diseases and hearing loss through electronic means, determine the manner of storing electronic consent records, and ensure the newborn child's attending physician has access to such records. Among other provisions, the bill authorizes a request for consent to such screenings to be submitted to the parent, managing conservator, or guardian through written or electronic means. Implementation of a provision of this bill by DSHS is mandatory only if a specific appropriation is made for that purpose.