Bill Text: NY A01518 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires a local health department to report positive cytomegalovirus results.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A01518 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A01518-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1518 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 17, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring report- ing of positive cytomegalovirus test results The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Article 21 of the public health law is amended by adding a 2 new title 9 to read as follows: 3 TITLE IX 4 CYTOMEGALOVIRUS 5 Section 2185. Cytomegalovirus; duty to report. 6 § 2185. Cytomegalovirus; duty to report. 1. Upon notice to a local 7 health department through the electronic clinical laboratories reporting 8 system that a newborn has tested positive for cytomegalovirus, the local 9 health department shall immediately contact the pediatrician of record 10 for such newborn and notify such pediatrician of the positive result. If 11 such pediatrician cannot be notified, then the local health department 12 shall contact the chief of newborn services at the hospital in which the 13 newborn was born. If such chief of newborn services cannot be contacted, 14 then the local health department shall contact the medical director at 15 the hospital in which the newborn was born. 16 2. The local health department shall simultaneously contact the parent 17 of any newborn with a positive test result for cytomegalovirus to inform 18 them that the newborn has tested positive for cytomegalovirus. 19 3. If the positive test was from a saliva specimen, a polymerase chain 20 reaction urine test as required pursuant to section twenty-five 21 hundred-a of this chapter shall be administered as soon as possible, 22 provided that the newborn is no more than three weeks in age, to confirm 23 the test result. 24 4. If a urine test administered pursuant to subdivision three of this 25 section confirms that the results are positive, the local health EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05736-01-3A. 1518 2 1 department shall immediately contact the pediatrician of record for such 2 newborn and notify such pediatrician of the positive result. If such 3 pediatrician cannot be notified, then the local health department shall 4 contact the chief of newborn services at the hospital in which the 5 newborn was born. If such chief of newborn services cannot be contacted, 6 then the local health department shall contact the medical director at 7 the hospital in which the newborn was born. In addition, the parent or 8 guardian of the newborn shall be contacted no later than one week from 9 such positive result and shall be referred to a pediatric infectious 10 disease specialist to perform a full examination before such newborn 11 reaches four weeks of age. Such examination shall include, but not be 12 limited to: 13 (a) Measurement of head circumference; 14 (b) Head sonogram; 15 (c) Blood tests including a complete blood count and liver function 16 tests; 17 (d) Eye exam by an ophthalmologist; and 18 (e) Hearing evaluation by auditory brainstem response. 19 5. Upon notification of a positive urine test result for cytomegalovi- 20 rus administered pursuant to subdivisions three and four of this 21 section, the local health department shall contact the pediatrician or 22 hospital chief of newborn services or the hospital medical director, and 23 the parent or guardian, to ensure the referral to a pediatric infectious 24 disease specialist pursuant to subdivision four of this section was 25 completed. 26 6. The commissioner shall cause cytomegalovirus to be added to the 27 list of communicable diseases designated pursuant to 10 NYCRR part 2.1. 28 7. For the purposes of this section, the term "newborn" shall include 29 any infant of the age of thirty-one days or less. 30 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
