STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1615

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. PERRY, BARRON, COLTON, COOK, TAYLOR, WEPRIN --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GALEF, HYNDMAN, PEOPLES-STOKES --  read
          once and referred to the Committee on Health

        AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring physi-
          cians and hospitals to obtain the  name  of  the  school  attended  by
          school-aged  patients  and to include this information in their admis-
          sion registration forms

          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  230-f to read as follows:
     3    § 230-f. Registration requirements. Every physician shall inquire  and
     4  document  as  part  of  his  or  her  patient registration, the name and
     5  address of the school attended by such physician's school-aged  patients
     6  and include such information in the patients' medical registration form.
     7    §  2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2805-aa
     8  to read as follows:
     9    § 2805-aa. Admission registration requirements. All general  hospitals
    10  shall  inquire  and document the name and address of the school attended
    11  by school-aged patients upon admission, and include such information  on
    12  the hospitals' admission registration form.
    13    §  3. This act shall take effect one year after the date upon which it
    14  shall have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03267-01-1