July 2024

Requires certain health care providers to notify primary care physicians of newborns and infants about specific screening results related to sickle cell hemoglobin variants and to submit these results to the DOH for a specified purpose.

This measure would provide employment opportunities as peer support specialists by granting exemptions from level 2 background checks for individuals with lived experience of homelessness who have a non-violent criminal record (regardless of the time elapsed) and have not been arrested in the past three years.