LRB-1127/P2
MED:wlj
2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Bollhorst, BB0174 - Newborn screening program
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Health
Funding for infant testing programs
Under current law, DHS and the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene operate a newborn screening program under which newborn babies are tested for certain blood disorders, in addition to hearing loss and critical congenital heart disease. Current law appropriates funding for the program from fees charged for various costs associated with the program. This bill creates an additional GPR appropriation to provide funding for the program and various costs associated with the program.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 20.435 (1) (ew) of the statutes is created to read:
20.435 (1) (ew) Congenital disorders; general purpose revenue. The amounts in the schedule to provide diagnostic services, special dietary treatment, and follow-up counseling for congenital disorders and periodic evaluation of infant screening programs as specified under s. 253.13, to provide referrals under s. 253.115, to administer the programs under ss. 253.115 and 253.13, and for the costs of consulting with appropriate experts as specified in s. 253.13 (5).
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involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
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