HB 1697 — Ensuring timely, efficient, and evidence-based additions to newborn screenings.

H-1587.1H-0837.1 SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1697 State of Washington 69th Legislature 2025 Regular Session By House Health Care & Wellness (originally sponsored by Representatives Stonier, Parshley, Reed, and Hill)Hill READRead FIRSTfirst TIMEtime 02/21/25.01/29/25.

Referred to Committee on Health Care & Wellness.

1 SHBHB 1697 leveraging the recommended uniform screening panel, ensuring intra- agency coordination, requiring focused feasibility reviews, and ensuring fees collected for newborn screenings are readily available to implement the requirements under chapter 70.83 RCW.

(1) By JanuaryJuly 1, 2027,2026, the state board of health shall reestablish in rule the newborn screening panel that newborns must be screened under RCW 70.83.020.

2 SHBHB 1697 (2) Within the12 firstmonths completeof calendar year after the addition of a new condition to the federal recommended uniform screening panel, the state board of health shall determine whether to add that new condition to the newborn screening panel.

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(4)(a) The board shall adopt rulesstandards asfor necessaryreviewing such requests to implementdetermine andwhether administerthere thisis section.sufficient scientific evidence available to evaluate the proposed addition.

(b) For proposed additions that have sufficient scientific evidence to conduct an evaluation, the board shall conduct a feasibility review as described in subsection (2)(a) and (b) of this section.

(c) In addition to the feasibility review, the board must also consider:

(i) Whether screening technology exists that can be made available to mass screen newborns;

(ii) The availability of diagnostic testing, treatment, and interventions;

and (iii) The need for population-based rather than risk-based screening or other approaches.

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3 HB 1697 (d) If the board determines that the condition should be included in the newborn screening panel, the board shall complete rule making to include the condition in the newborn screening panel within 12 months of the determination.

(4) The board may add other new conditions to the newborn screening panel in rule if it completes the feasibility review as described in subsection (2)(a) and (b) of this section.

(5) The board shall adopt rules as necessary to implement and administer this section.

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4 SHB 1697 (2) All income received from investment of the treasurer's trust fund must be set aside in an account in the treasury trust fund to be known as the investment income account.

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6 SHB 1697 (c) The following accounts and funds must receive 80 percent of their proportionate share of earnings based upon each account's or fund's average daily balance for the period:

(1)p. Money in the treasurer's trust fund may be deposited, invested, and reinvested by the state treasurer in accordance with RCW 43.84.080 in the same manner and to the same extent as if the money were in the state treasury, and may be commingled with moneys in the state treasury for cash management and cash balance purposes.

7 HB 1697 (1) Money in the treasurer's trust fund may be deposited, invested, and reinvested by the state treasurer in accordance with RCW 43.84.080 in the same manner and to the same extent as if the money were in the state treasury, and may be commingled with moneys in the state treasury for cash management and cash balance purposes.

p.(b) The following accounts and funds must receive their proportionate share of earnings based upon each account's or fund's average daily balance for the period:

7 SHB 1697 (b) The following accounts and funds must receive their proportionate share of earnings based upon each account's or fund's average daily balance for the period:

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8 SHBHB 1697 the fair fund, the family and medical leave insurance account, the Fern Lodge maintenance account, the fish and wildlife federal lands revolving account, the natural resources federal lands revolving account, the food animal veterinarian conditional scholarship account, the forest health revolving account, the fruit and vegetable inspection account, the educator conditional scholarship account, the game farm alternative account, the GET ready for math and science scholarship account, the Washington global health technologies and product development account, the grain inspection revolving fund, the Washington history day account, the industrial insurance rainy day fund, the juvenile accountability incentive account, the law enforcement officers' and firefighters' plan 2 expense fund, the local tourism promotion account, the low-income home rehabilitation account, the medication for people living with HIV rebate revenue account, the newborn screening revenue account, the homeowner recovery account, the multiagency permitting team account, the northeast Washington wolf-livestock management account, the produce railcar pool account, the public use general aviation airport loan revolving account, the regional transportation investment district account, the rural rehabilitation account, the Washington sexual assault kit account, the stadium and exhibition center account, the youth athletic facility account, the self-insurance revolving fund, the children's trust fund, the Washington horse racing commission Washington bred owners' bonus fund and breeder awards account, the Washington horse racing commission class C purse fund account, the individual development account program account, the Washington horse racing commission operating account, the life sciences discovery fund, the Washington state library-archives building account, the reduced cigarette ignition propensity account, the center for deaf and hard of hearing youth account, the school for the blind account, the Millersylvania park trust fund, the public employees' and retirees' insurance reserve fund, the school employees' benefits board insurance reserve fund, the public employees' and retirees' insurance account, the school employees' insurance account, the long- term services and supports trust account, the radiation perpetual maintenance fund, the Indian health improvement reinvestment account, the department of licensing tuition recovery trust fund, the student achievement council tuition recovery trust fund, the tuition recovery trust fund, the industrial insurance premium refund account, the mobile home park relocation fund, the natural resources deposit fund, thep. Washington state health insurance pool account, the federal forest revolving account, the Washington saves administrative treasury trust account, and the library operations account.

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p.(5) In conformance with Article II, section 37 of the state Constitution, no trust accounts or funds shall be allocated earnings without the specific affirmative directive of this section.

9 SHB 1697 (5) In conformance with Article II, section 37 of the state Constitution, no trust accounts or funds shall be allocated earnings without the specific affirmative directive of this section.

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