This bill addresses newborn infant testing.
This bill:
- 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; and
- makes technical changes.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 26B-4-319
Substitute #1: 26B-4-319
Substitute #2: 26B-4-319
Enrolled: 17-22-8, 26B-4-319, 63I-1-264, 64-13-46, 64-13-46.1
Substitute #3: 17-22-8, 26B-4-319, 63I-1-264, 64-13-46, 64-13-46.1