Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session
Relating to: information on Down syndrome. (FE)
Family Genetics and genetic testing Guardian and ward Health services department of — Health Medical service — Occupations Nurses Organization miscellaneous Physician
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
- Law, not reached
Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires certain health care practitioners and genetic counselors who
provide prenatal or postnatal care or genetic counseling, who administer or request
administration of prenatal or postnatal screening or diagnostic tests that detect
Down syndrome, and who receive the results of those tests to deliver certain
information to an expectant parent, parent, or guardian whose child has a prenatal
screening that indicates or a postnatal diagnosis of Down syndrome. The bill
requires the Department of Health Services to make available the information
related to Down syndrome specified in the bill in informational support packages and
on its Internet site. The bill also requires DHS to establish a grant program to award
grants to at least one nonprofit organization for the creation of the information
materials on Down syndrome specified in the bill.
Sponsors
Introduced by: Kooyenga (R)
Full history
- Mar 26, 2020 · Senate
Introduced by Senator Kooyenga
- Mar 26, 2020 · Senate
Read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Human Services
- Apr 1, 2020 · Senate
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1