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CA SB570
Bill
AI Summary
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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