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Resolve, To Require Hospitals To Provide Information to Parents of Infants Regarding Testing for Krabbe Disease
Sec. 1 Department of Health and Human Services, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention to develop a pamphlet on Krabbe disease. Resolved: That the Department of Health and Human Services, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention shall develop an information pamphlet on testing for Krabbe disease to be provided by a hospital to all parents of newborn infants born at the hospital or to the parents of a child up to 6 months of age not born at the hospital but being treated at the hospital. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention shall develop the information pamphlet by December 1, 2015.
 
SUMMARY
This resolve requires the Department of Health and Human Services, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention to develop an information pamphlet on testing for Krabbe disease for dissemination by a hospital to all parents of newborn infants born at the hospital or to the parents of any child up to 6 months of age being treated at the hospital. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention is required to develop the pamphlet by December 1, 2015.