Tex.
Health & Safety Code Section 47.0031
Follow-up Screening
(a)
The program that performed the hearing screening under Section 47.003 (Newborn Hearing Screening, Tracking, and Intervention Program) shall provide the newborn’s or infant’s parents with the screening results. A birthing facility, through the program, shall offer a follow-up hearing screening to the parents of a newborn or infant who does not pass the screening, or refer the parents to another program for the follow-up hearing screening. The follow-up hearing screening should be performed not later than the 30th day after the date the newborn or infant is discharged from the facility.(b)
If a newborn or an infant does not pass the screening in a follow-up hearing screening, the program that performed the follow-up hearing screening on the newborn or infant shall:(1)
provide the screening results to:(A)
the newborn’s or infant’s parents; and(B)
with the prior written consent of the newborn’s or infant’s parents, the primary statewide resource center established under Section 30.051 (Purpose of Texas School for the Deaf), Education Code;(2)
assist in scheduling a diagnostic audiological evaluation for the newborn or infant, consistent with the most current guidelines in the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing Position Statement, or refer the newborn or infant to a licensed audiologist who provides diagnostic audiological evaluations for newborns or infants that are consistent with the most current guidelines in the Joint Committee on Infant Hearing Position Statement; and(3)
refer the newborn or infant to early childhood intervention services and the primary statewide resource center established under Section 30.051 (Purpose of Texas School for the Deaf), Education Code.
Source:
Section 47.0031 — Follow-up Screening, https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.47.htm#47.0031 (accessed Jun. 5, 2024).
