HOUSE BILL 479

47th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2005

INTRODUCED BY

Rhonda S. King

AN ACT

RELATING TO HEALTH; EXPANDING THE NUMBER OF MEDICAL TESTS REQUIRED FOR NEWBORN CHILDREN.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     Section 1. Section 24-1-6 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1973, Chapter 359, Section 6, as amended) is amended to read:

     "24-1-6. TESTS REQUIRED FOR NEWBORN INFANTS.--

          A. The department shall adopt tests for the detection of [phenylketonuria and other] congenital diseases [which] that shall be given to every newborn infant, except that, after being informed of the reasons for the tests, the parents or guardians of the newborn child may waive the requirements for the tests in writing. The tests shall include at a minimum:

                (1) 3-methylcrotonyl-CoA deficiency;

                (2) 3-OH 3-CH3 glutaric aciduria;

                (3) argininosuccinic acidemia;

                (4) beta-ketothiolase deficiency;

                (5) biotinidase deficiency;

                (6) carnitine uptake defect;

                (7) citrullinemia;

                (8) congenital adrenal hyperplasia;

                (9) congenital hypothyroidism;

                (10) cystic fibrosis;

                (11) galactosemia;

                (12) glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency;

                (13) glutaric acidemia type I;

                (14) Hb S/beta-thalassemia;

                (15) Hb S/C disease;

                (16) hearing deficiency;

                (17) homocystinuria;

                (18) isovaleric academia;

                (19) long-chain L-3-OH acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency;

                (20) maple syrup urine disease;

                (21) medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency;

                (22) methylmalonic acidemia;

                (23) methylmalonic acidemia (mutase deficiency);

                (24) multiple carboxylase deficiency;

                (25) phenylketonuria;

                (26) proponic acidemia;

                (27) sickle cell anemia;

                (28) trifunctional protein deficiency;

                (29) tyrosinemia type I; and

                (30) very long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency.

          B.  In determining which other congenital diseases to adopt tests for, the secretary [of health and environment] shall consider the recommendations of the New Mexico pediatrics society of the American academy of pediatrics.

          [B.] C. The department shall institute and carry on such laboratory services or may contract with another agency or [state] entity to provide such services as are necessary to detect the presence of [phenylketonuria and other] congenital diseases.

          [C.] D. The department shall, as necessary, carry on an educational program among physicians, hospitals, public health nurses and the public concerning [phenylketonuria and other] congenital diseases.

          [D.] E. The department shall require that all hospitals or institutions having facilities for childbirth perform or have performed tests for [phenylketonuria and other] congenital diseases on all newborn infants except if the parents or guardians of a child object to the tests in writing."

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