SB 419 Summary

• Repeals the health care facility advisory council law and transfers its duties to the state department of health, which now directly adopts rules for health facilities rather than receiving council proposals.

• Reduces the timeframe for accepting delayed birth certificates from four years after birth to six months after birth.

• Expands autism spectrum disorder reporting to the birth problems registry to include diagnoses at any age, rather than only those made before age five; excludes individuals age 8 and older from federal CDC reporting requirements and diagnosis confirmation requirements.

• Adds specific visual impairments (achromatopsia, albinism, amblyopia, cataracts, glaucoma, retinoblastoma, and 27 others) to the definition of birth problems for registry reporting purposes.

• Limits spinal cord and brain injury fund usage to 50% maximum for developing a statewide trauma system, with the remaining funds reserved for medical surveillance registry, board operations, and research.

• Effective July 1, 2014.