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SENATE BILL NO. 449
AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE
(Proposed by the Senate Committee on Education and Health
on February 1, 2018)
(Patron Prior to Substitute--Senator Chaffin)
A BILL to require the Board of Health to amend regulations governing
newborn screening to include certain diseases.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. §1. That the Board of Health shall amend
regulations governing newborn screening to include screening for Pompe disease
and mucopolysaccharidosis type 1 (MPS-1).