New York Assembly Bill 2675 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)
Status: Introduced on January 17 2013 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2014-04-28 - amended on third reading 2675a
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

Requires health care providers (i.e., an entity licensed/certified under certain articles of the public health law or the mental hygiene law, a health care practitioner licensed/registered/certified under title eight of the education law, or a provider of pharmaceutical products/services or durable medical equipment) to disclose errors in diagnosis, treatment or other services that the provider knows has caused substantial harm or significant risk of substantial harm; provides there shall be a rebuttable presumption that the provider knew of the error and the harm or risk of harm if, under the circumstances, the provider reasonably should have had knowledge thereof; provides such disclosure shall be made within a reasonable period of time and be reasonably understandable.

Requires health care providers (i.e., an entity licensed/certified under certain articles of the public health law or the mental hygiene law, a health care practitioner licensed/registered/certified under title eight of the education law, or a provider of pharmaceutical products/services or durable medical equipment) to disclose errors in diagnosis, treatment or other services that the provider knows has caused substantial harm or significant risk of substantial harm; provides there shall be a rebuttable presumption that the provider knew of the error and the harm or risk of harm if, under the circumstances, the provider reasonably should have had knowledge thereof; provides such disclosure shall be made within a reasonable period of time and be reasonably understandable.

Asm. Richard Gottfried [D]	Asm. Sandra Galef [D]	Asm. David Gantt [D]	Asm. William Magnarelli [D]
Asm. Amy Paulin [D]	Asm. Nick Perry [D]	Asm. Jose Rivera [D]	Asm. James Brennan [D]
Asm. William Colton [D]	Asm. Jeffrey Dinowitz [D]	Asm. Earlene Hooper [D]	Asm. Rhoda Jacobs [D]
Asm. Felix Ortiz [D]	Asm. Helene Weinstein [D]	Asm. Keith Wright [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-04-28	Assembly	amended on third reading 2675a
2014-04-24	Assembly	advanced to third reading cal.555
2014-04-07	Assembly	reported
2014-02-26	Assembly	reported referred to codes
2014-01-08	Assembly	referred to health
2013-06-11	Assembly	ordered to third reading rules cal.182
2013-06-11	Assembly	rules report cal.182
2013-06-11	Assembly	reported
2013-06-04	Assembly	reported referred to rules
2013-04-23	Assembly	reported referred to codes
2013-01-17	Assembly	referred to health

Type	Source
Summary	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A02675&term=2013&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A02675&term=2013&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#A02675
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A02675&term=2013&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#A02675A