Education and Public Health, Departments of; collaborate to prioritize the expansion of vision and hearing screenings at various grade levels; urge

The House Committee on Education submitted a substitute amendment to HR 145 that reorganized the bill's structure and added new factual context about hearing loss prevalence. The amendment maintains the core request for expanded vision and hearing screening but adds a new WHEREAS clause noting that 8% of children have hearing loss between ages 6-19, replacing the previous statistics about newborn hearing screening follow-up rates. The document also changes the title from the original House Resolution to indicate this is now a substitute version.