MENINGOCOCCAL DISEASE BROCHURE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION

This act requires the Department of Health and Senior Services to develop an informational brochure relating to meningococcal disease. The brochure must be available on the Department's website. The Department must notify each public institution of higher education of the brochure's availability. Such institutions must provide a copy of the brochure to all students and to parents if the student is under 18 years of age. Information that must be included in the brochure is described in the act. (Section 167.638)

This act is similar to provisions in SCS/SB 256 (2013) and to SB 421 (2013).

CHLOE'S LAW

This act establishes "Chloe's Law" which requires, effective January 1, 2014, every child born in this state to be screened for critical congenital heart disease with pulse oximetry or in another manner as prescribed by the Department of Health and Senior Services.

The act outlines the procedures, both in and outside of a facility, and in the home, for the screening, providing of informational material, reporting and referral for treatment if necessary to the parents and for reporting of the results to the department for surveillance purposes.

The provisions of this act shall not apply if a parent or guardian of the newborn object to such testing on the grounds that such tests conflict with his or her religious tenets and practices. The parent or guardian of any child who refuses to have the critical congenital heart disease screening test administered after notice of the requirement for such test shall have such refusal documented in writing.

ADRIANE CROUSE