Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act of 2019
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Official Summary
Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act of 2019
This bill reauthorizes through FY2024 and revises several programs and activities relating to newborn screening for genetic diseases. Among other things, the bill reauthorizes, and makes mandatory rather than discretionary, the Hunter Kelly Research Program at the National Institutes of Health as well as national surveillance activities conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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S-2158: The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act of 2019Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H7365-7367)
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H7365-7367)
House of Representatives
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
House of Representatives
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Senate