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H. 4994
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Joint Resolution
Sponsors: Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs Committee
Document Path: l:\council\bills\dbs\31156ac14.docx
Introduced in the House on March 27, 2014
Introduced in the Senate on April 3, 2014
Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Medical Affairs
Summary: Critical congenital heart defects screening on newborns (D. No. 4429)
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
Date Body Action Description with journal page number ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3/27/2014 House Introduced, read first time, placed on calendar without reference (House Journal-page 7) 4/2/2014 House Read second time (House Journal-page 198) 4/2/2014 House Roll call Yeas-104 Nays-0 (House Journal-page 198) 4/3/2014 House Read third time and sent to Senate (House Journal-page 14) 4/3/2014 Senate Introduced and read first time (Senate Journal-page 12) 4/3/2014 Senate Referred to Committee on Medical Affairs (Senate Journal-page 12) 4/10/2014 House Requests for debate-Rep(s). King, Cobb-Hunter, RL Ott, Southard, Thayer, Long, Skelton, Hosey, Mack, Clemmons, GR Smith (House Journal-page 101)
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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
INTRODUCED
March 27, 2014
H. 4994
Introduced by Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs Committee
S. Printed 3/27/14--H.
Read the first time March 27, 2014.
TO APPROVE REGULATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL, RELATING TO CRITICAL CONGENITAL HEART DEFECTS SCREENING ON NEWBORNS, DESIGNATED AS REGULATION DOCUMENT NUMBER 4429, PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE 1, CHAPTER 23, TITLE 1 OF THE 1976 CODE.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. The regulations of the Department of Health and Environmental Control, relating to Critical Congenital Heart Defects Screening on Newborns, designated as Regulation Document Number 4429, and submitted to the General Assembly pursuant to the provisions of Article 1, Chapter 23, Title 1 of the 1976 Code, are approved.
SECTION 2. This joint resolution takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
South Carolina Act No. 0064, effective September 11, 2013, enacted the Emerson Rose Act, S.C. Code Section 44-37-70 et seq. The Act, at 1976 Code Sections 44-37-70 et seq., directed the Department to promulgate regulations to perform a pulse oximetry screening tests, or another approved screening to detect congenital heart defects, on every newborn in its care, when the baby is twenty-four to forty-eight hours of age, or as late as possible if the baby is discharged from the hospital before reaching twenty-four hours of age. This regulation will comply with the Act by mandating congenital heart defect screening on newborns. See sectional discussion below and Statements of Need and Reasonableness and Rationale herein.
A Notice of Drafting for this regulation was published in the State Register on September 27, 2013.
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