HB1836: Infants; blood sample provided to parents.


HOUSE BILL NO. 1836
AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE
(Proposed by the House Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions
on January 27, 2011)
(Patron Prior to Substitute--Delegate O'Bannon)
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 32.1-134.02, relating to hospitals; blood samples of infants.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 32.1-134.02 as follows:

§ 32.1-134.02. Infants; blood sample provided to parents.

Every hospital providing maternity care shall offer to obtain a sample of blood from an infant born at the hospital and provide that sample to the mother of the infant.

HOUSE BILL NO. 1836
Offered January 12, 2011
Prefiled January 11, 2011
A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 32.1-134.02, relating to hospitals; DNA sampling of infants.
Patron-- O'Bannon

Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 32.1-134.02 as follows:

§ 32.1-134.02. DNA samples of infants.

Every hospital providing maternity care shall, at such time as the newborn screening required pursuant to § 32.1-65 is performed, obtain a sample of the infant's DNA and provide that sample to the mother of the infant. If the mother of an infant objects to collection of the sample, the sample shall not be taken and provided to the mother of the infant.