HB 76 New Mexico House · 2025 Regular Session

CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE TESTS FOR INFANTS

HB 76 would require hospitals to offer additional heart defect tests - echocardiograms and electrocardiograms - for newborns at higher risk of congenital heart disease, specifically those with a family history of heart issues or parents reporting certain symptoms (like unexplained fainting during exercise or sudden chest pain). It directly affects newborns with these risk factors and the hospitals providing their care. The bill expands existing newborn screening by adding these tests to the required protocols when specific family history criteria are met, without changing the current pulse oximetry requirement for all infants. The policy change focuses on early detection for higher-risk cases, using plain language to define the trigger conditions.

Issues: ✓ Healthcare

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

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Governor

Introduced Jan 10, 2025 Last action Jun 3, 2025

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MODERATE

This bill expands newborn screening requirements in New Mexico to include additional genetic conditions and adds new heart disease screening protocols for infants at higher risk. The changes modify the list of required metabolic disease tests and introduce specific criteria for when additional heart disease testing (echocardiograms and electrocardiograms) should be performed beyond standard pulse oximetry screening.

Scope change

The bill's scope expanded from standard newborn metabolic screening to include additional genetic conditions and created new eligibility criteria for heart disease screening based on family history and specific risk factors.

REQUIREMENT

Added 10 new genetic disease screening requirements including acid maltase deficiency, globoid cell leukodystrophy, Gaucher's disease, Niemann-Pick disease, and Fabry disease to the mandatory newborn screening panel.

Added new heart disease screening requirements requiring echocardiograms and electrocardiograms for newborns with specific family history of congenital heart disease, sudden cardiac death, or other cardiac conditions.

Added requirement for health care providers to use a standard department-developed questionnaire to evaluate whether further heart disease screening is necessary based on abnormal fetal ultrasound or diagnosed systemic/genetic disorders.

ELIGIBILITY

Modified heart disease screening eligibility criteria to include specific family history factors such as sudden cardiac death before age 50, implantable defibrillators, cardiomyopathies, Marfan syndrome, and heritable pulmonary arterial hypertension.

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Committee

Feb 17, 2025

Lower · Passed

DO NOT PASS, replaced with committee substitute

lower

Feb 3, 2025

Lower · Passed

DO PASS committee report adopted

lower

Jan 23, 2025

Introduced

Sent to House Health & Human Services Committee & House Consumer & Public Affairs Committee

lower

Jan 10, 2025

Introduced

Sent to House Pre-file

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors