Colorado Code
Part 10 - Newborn Screening and Genetic Counseling and Education Act
§ 25-4-1004. Newborn Screening - Rules

(1.5) If the department deems that new conditions for which an infant must be tested should be added, the department shall report the added conditions to the general assembly during its presentation in accordance with the "State Measurement for Accountable, Responsive, and Transparent (SMART) Government Act", part 2 of article 7 of title 2. The department shall also notify the joint budget committee and the health and human services committee of the senate and the health, insurance, and environment committee and the public health care and human services committee of the house of representatives, or their successor committees, within sixty days after the department recommends a new condition and include the added conditions in the department's annual budget request submitted to the general assembly each November 1.

Source: L. 81: Entire part added, p. 1302, § 1, effective July 1. L. 83: (2) amended, p. 1070, § 1, effective May 20. L. 87: (1) amended, p. 1128, § 1, effective July 1. L. 88: (1) amended, p. 1009, § 1, effective July 1. L. 91: (1) amended, p. 949, § 17, effective May 6. L. 94: (1)(b) and (2) amended, p. 2769, § 456, effective July 1. L. 96: (1)(b) amended, p. 1107, § 1, effective July 1. L. 2007: (1)(b) amended, p. 654, § 2, effective April 26. L. 2018: (1)(b), IP(1)(c), and (2) amended and (1.5) and (3) added, (HB 18-1006), ch. 368, p. 2214, § 4, effective July 1.
Editor's note: Subsection (1)(a)(II) provided for the repeal of subsection (1)(a), effective April 1, 1989. (See L. 88, p. 1009 .)
Cross references: For the legislative declaration contained in the 1994 act amending subsections (1)(b) and (2), see section 1 of chapter 345, Session Laws of Colorado 1994.