Bill Text: NY A00640 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Requires hospitals to provide forms in Punjabi.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to health [A00640 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A00640-Introduced.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                           640
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 9, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. M. G. MILLER -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  requiring  hospi-
          tals to provide forms in Punjabi
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  2805-z to read as follows:
     3    §  2805-z.  Forms  printed  in  Punjabi.  Every  hospital  shall, at a
     4  patient's request, provide any medical form or printed information which
     5  is given to a patient or required to be signed by  such  patient  trans-
     6  lated into Punjabi.
     7    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     8  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02771-01-7