Sec. 33.011. TEST REQUIREMENT

(a) The physician attending a newborn child or the person attending the delivery of a newborn child that is not attended by a physician shall subject the child to screening tests approved by the department for phenylketonuria, other heritable diseases, hypothyroidism, and other disorders for which screening is required by the department.

(a-1) Except as provided by this subsection and to the extent funding is available for the screening, the department shall require newborn screening tests to screen for disorders listed in the core panel and in the secondary targets of the uniform newborn screening panel recommended in the 2005 report by the American College of Medical Genetics entitled "Newborn Screening: Toward a Uniform Screening Panel and System" or another report determined by the department to provide more stringent newborn screening guidelines to protect the health and welfare of this state's newborns. The department, with the advice of the Newborn Screening Advisory Committee, may require additional newborn screening tests under this subsection to screen for other disorders or conditions. The department may exclude from the newborn screening tests required under this subsection screenings for galactose epimerase and galactokinase.

(b) The department may prescribe the screening test procedures to be used and the standards of accuracy and precision required for each test.

(c) The screening tests required by this section must be performed by the laboratory established by the department or by a laboratory approved by the department under Section 33.016.

Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 14, Sec. 8, eff. Sept. 1, 1991. Amended by: Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 940 , Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2005. Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1124 , Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2009.