CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 5141

                    Chapter 76, Laws of 1999

                        56th Legislature

                      1999 Regular Session

NEWBORN SCREENING FEES

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  7/25/99

Passed by the Senate March 12, 1999   YEAS 48   NAYS 0                BRAD OWEN President of the Senate Passed by the House April 9, 1999   YEAS 93   NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE I, Tony M. Cook, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is  ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 5141 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

CLYDE BALLARD Speaker of the       House of Representatives	TONY M. COOK                             Secretary
FRANK CHOPP Speaker of the       House of Representatives

Approved April 22, 1999 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.

FILED                      April 22, 1999 - 3:38 p.m.

GARY LOCKE Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                  State of Washington

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                    ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 5141

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             Passed Legislature - 1999 Regular Session

State of Washington      56th Legislature     1999 Regular Session

By Senators Thibaudeau, Deccio, Prentice and Winsley; by request of Department of Health

Read first time 01/14/1999.  Referred to Committee on Health & Long Term Care.

Allowing the department of health to charge a fee for newborn screening services.  

    AN ACT Relating to newborn screening fees; and amending RCW 70.83.040.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

    Sec. 1.  RCW 70.83.040 and 1991 c 3 s 350 are each amended to read as follows:

    When notified of positive screening tests, the state department of health shall offer the use of its services and facilities, designed to prevent mental retardation or physical defects in such children, to the attending physician, or the parents of the newborn child if no attending physician can be identified.

    The services and facilities of the department, and other state and local agencies cooperating with the department in carrying out programs of detection and prevention of mental retardation and physical defects shall be made available to the family and physician to the extent required in order to carry out the intent of this chapter and within the availability of funds.  The department has the authority to collect a reasonable fee, from the parents or other responsible party of each infant screened to fund specialty clinics that provide treatment services for hemoglobin diseases, phenylketonuria, congenital adrenal hyperplasia, and congenital hypothyroidism.  The fee may be collected through the facility where the screening specimen is obtained.

    Passed the Senate March 12, 1999.

    Passed the House April 9, 1999.

Approved by the Governor April 22, 1999.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 22, 1999.