Newborn screening is an essential public health function designed to screen, identify and link babies to comprehensive, community based, culturally competent, family centered services.
The State of New Jersey has an electronic grant management system called SAGE (System for Administering Grants Electronically).
Newborn screening is supported by Chapter 24 of the Public Laws of 1988, N.J.S.A. 26:2-110 and N.J.S.A. 26:2-111, New Jersey Administrative Code, Title 8, Department of Health, Chapter 18, and this bill.