Considerations for planning and promoting legislation are provided here in a discussion of Legislation for Newborn Hearing Screening . Proposal for Federal Legislation W ording for federal legislation has been introduced as the Early Hearing Detection Act of 1998 . State Legislation T he table below identifies enacted and proposed state legislation supporting newborn hearing screening and provides links to copies of legislation on the MDNC site, copies of bills and laws on state Web sites, and search engines for state legislation. W here states are marked with an asterisk, the link goes directly to the state legislature listing or search engine. Some of the links require entering the identified numbers of the newborn hearing screening bills in the search forms.
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