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H.R. 2507: Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act of 2019

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H.R. 2507: Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act of 2019

116th Congress · introduced 2019-05-02 · Health · Latest: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2019-05-02 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Roybal-Allard, Lucille [D-CA-40] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act of 2019

Plain summary

Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act of 2019 This bill reauthorizes through FY2024 and revises several programs and activities relating to newborn screening for genetic diseases. Among other things, the bill reauthorizes, and makes mandatory rather than discretionary, the Hunter Kelly Research Program at the National Institutes of Health as well as national surveillance activities conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Official text

Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act of 2019

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Passed House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Roybal-Allard, Lucille [D-CA-40] · 50 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: H.R. 2507, Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act of 2019 (2019-10-16)

Cosponsors on this site

Michael K. Simpson (R-ID), Katherine M. Clark (D-MA), Brian K. Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), John R. Carter (R-TX), Ed Case (D-HI), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Tom Cole (R-OK), Chris Pappas (D-NH), Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann (R-TN), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Ted Lieu (D-CA), James A. Himes (D-CT), Darren Soto (D-FL), Robin L. Kelly (D-IL), Peter Welch (D-VT), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Sean Casten (D-IL), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), Brett Guthrie (R-KY)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong116-hr2507 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong116 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong116