Bill Text: NY A00670 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires primary care physicians to post certain information detailing how parents or guardians of infants and children can subscribe to the United States consumer product safety commission's e-mail subscription lists.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A00670 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00670-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           670

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ, PAULIN, L. ROSENTHAL, WEPRIN, SEAWRIGHT
          --  Multi-Sponsored  by  -- M. of A. COOK -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring  primary
          care  physicians  to post certain information detailing how parents or
          guardians of infants and children can subscribe to the  United  States
          consumer product safety commission's e-mail subscription lists

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Article 25 of the public health law is amended by adding  a
     2  new title 9 to read as follows:
     3                                  TITLE IX
     4                       RECALL SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION
     5  Section 2599-e. Physician posting of recall subscription information.
     6    § 2599-e. Physician posting of recall subscription information.  1. As
     7  used  in  this  section,  "primary  care  physician"  means  a physician
     8  specialist in the field of family practice, general pediatrics,  primary
     9  care  internal  medicine  or primary care obstetrics and gynecology, who
    10  provides coordinated primary care services.
    11    2. The commissioner shall require that every  primary  care  physician
    12  post  in  a place or places, clearly visible to all persons, adjacent to
    13  or near the location such primary care physician has designated for  the
    14  receipt  of  payment,  an  informational  notice.  Such  notice shall be
    15  designed by the commissioner in conjunction with the secretary of  state
    16  and  shall  contain  information  detailing  how parents or guardians of
    17  infants and children can subscribe to the United States consumer product
    18  safety commission's e-mail subscription lists to receive consumer  prod-
    19  uct  recall  and  safety  news by e-mail from the United States consumer
    20  product safety commission and such other material as deemed  appropriate
    21  by the commissioner. Such notice shall be made available to primary care
    22  physicians  by  the  department  on its website and shall be provided in

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00694-01-3
        A. 670                              2

     1  English, as well as  in  the  six  languages  other  than  English  most
     2  frequently  spoken  in  the state according to the latest available data
     3  from the United States Census Bureau and upon  request  from  a  primary
     4  care  physician,  any  other  language spoken by a significant number of
     5  people within the community served by such primary care  physician.    A
     6  primary  care  physician  shall  post  such notice in English and in any
     7  other language spoken by significant numbers of people within the commu-
     8  nity he or she serves.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    10  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
    11  ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal  of  any  rule  or  regulation
    12  necessary  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are
    13  authorized and directed to be made and completed by the commissioner  of
    14  health on or before such effective date.