Kansas’s House and Human Services Committee passed a bill on March 18 requiring doctors to test pregnant women and newborn babies for HIV, the Kansas Health Institute News reports. The Senate passed the bill 37 to 3 earlier this month, and it now goes to the state’s full House of Representatives for approval.

“There were some questions raised early on, but they’ve been answered,” said Rep. Brenda Landwehr (R–Wichita), a chairwoman for the committee. She had questioned whether the testing bill would influence positive infants’ health insurance coverage due to their having what’s known as a pre-existing condition.

However, Senate Bill 147’s supporters and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment reasoned that the need to diagnose and prevent new HIV infections in children outweighed concerns over health insurance.