TO: | Honorable Jane Nelson, Chair, Senate Committee on Health & Human Services |
FROM: | John S. O'Brien, Director, Legislative Budget Board |
IN RE: | HB2330 by Guillen (Relating to laboratory tests measuring kidney function.), Committee Report 2nd House, Substituted |
The bill specifies that any laboratory that performs a serum creatinine test on a sample from a person 18 years of age or older, at the discretion of a physician, shall also calculate and include in the reported results the person’s estimated glomerular filtration rate if the lab has all of the relevant clinical information about the person to calculate the rate. The Department of State Health Services does not anticipate any fiscal impact associated with the bill.
Source Agencies: | 537 State Health Services, Department of
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LBB Staff: | JOB, CL, JF, MB, LR
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