Bill Text: NY A04987 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to establishing a video on the dangers of drowning for infants and young children to be viewed by a parent and/or parents of newborn children.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-05 - substituted by s3608a [A04987 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04987-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4987--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 27, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO, HEVESI -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Health  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the public health law, in relation to establishing a
          video on the dangers of drowning for infants and young children to  be
          viewed by a parent and/or parents of newborn children

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 2803-j of the public  health  law,
     2  as  amended  by  chapter  431 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    6. Every hospital and birth center shall request that [each  maternity
     5  patient  and  father  of]  a parent and/or parents, which shall mean and
     6  include biological and adoptive parents, guardians, or other persons  in
     7  parental relationship to a newborn child, if available, view (a) a video
     8  presentation,  approved  by  the commissioner, on the dangers of shaking
     9  infants and young children, and the symptoms of  shaken  baby  syndrome,
    10  and  (b)  a  video  presentation,  approved  by the commissioner, on the
    11  dangers of drowning for infants and young children.  After viewing  such
    12  [a  video presentation] video presentations or upon refusal to view such
    13  [a video presentation] video presentations, the hospital or birth center
    14  shall request that such [patient and/or father]  parent  and/or  parents
    15  sign  a form stating that they have viewed or refused to view such video
    16  [presentation] presentations.  All training materials and forms required
    17  to implement the provisions of this subdivision shall be provided by the
    18  commissioner.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    20  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    21  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    22  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    23  completed on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07460-05-3