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CA SB570

Bill

Status

Engrossed

5/25/2023

Primary Sponsor

Josh Becker

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Origin

Senate

2023-2024 Session

AI Summary

  • Prohibits the State Department of Public Health from using rules, regulations, contracts, or other means to prevent laboratories with both a CLIA certificate of accreditation and a current state clinical or public health laboratory license from offering all noninvasive prenatal tests to pregnant persons with an order from a prenatal care provider.

  • Prohibits the department from limiting the number of noninvasive prenatal tests that qualified laboratories may provide, including testing for autosomal trisomies (21, 18, and 13) and fetal sex.

  • Defines "prenatal care provider" as a health care provider licensed under California's Business and Professions Code who provides prenatal medical care within their scope of practice.

  • Requires the department to expand prenatal screening to include all tests meeting or exceeding current standards of care as recommended by nationally recognized medical or genetic organizations.

  • Maintains existing requirements for genetic counseling in conjunction with prenatal testing and department oversight of prenatal diagnosis centers and subsidy programs.

Legislative Description

Prenatal screening program.

Last Action

September 1 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.

9/1/2023

Committee Referrals

Appropriations7/12/2023
Health6/8/2023
Appropriations3/30/2023
Health2/22/2023
Rules2/15/2023

Full Bill Text

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