By Mrs. Canavan of Brockton, petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2057) of Christine E. Canavan and others relative to the fees collected by the Department of Public Health for the testing of newborns for pheynlketonoria.  Public Health.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PETITION OF:

Christine E. Canavan

Geraldine Creedon

Thomas P. Kennedy

Barbara A. L'Italien

Linda Dorcena Forry

Martin J. Walsh

Brian P. Wallace

Geoffrey D. Hall

Lida E. Harkins

Thomas J. Calter

Walter F. Timilty

Anne M. Gobi

Louis L. Kafka

Allen J. McCarthy

Jennifer M. Callahan

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In the Year Two Thousand and Seven.

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An Act relative to the PKU newborn screening fee.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Section 4E of chapter 111 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2004 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following sentence:—Not less than 10 per cent of the fee charged by the state laboratory to perform newborn testing for phenylketonuria will be allocated to this program, and these funds will be disbursed to the Commonwealth’s metabolic disorder clinic programs for the purpose of patient education and support or anything else deemed necessary by said clinic programs.