SB0840 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
SB0840

Introduced 2/6/2009, by Sen. John J. Cullerton

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

410 ILCS 240/1

from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4903

Amends the Newborn Metabolic Screening Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning rules of the Department of Public Health.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning health.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Newborn Metabolic Screening Act is amended by changing Section 1 as follows:

(410 ILCS 240/1) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4903)

Sec. 1. The The Illinois Department of Public Health shall promulgate and enforce rules and regulations requiring that every newborn be subjected to tests for phenylketonuria, hypothyroidism, galactosemia and such other metabolic diseases as the Department may deem necessary from time to time. The Department is empowered to promulgate such additional rules and regulations as are found necessary for the administration of this Act, including mandatory reporting of the results of all tests for these conditions to the Illinois Department of Public Health.

(Source: P.A. 83-87.)