Bill Text: NY A06427 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that hospital admission registration forms include the name of school attended by school-aged patients; provides a protocol for notification to parents.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-26 - advanced to third reading cal.779 [A06427 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06427-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6427--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 24, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. PERRY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GALEF,
          HOOPER, PEOPLES-STOKES -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on
          Health  --  recommitted  to the Committee on Health in accordance with
          Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        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-e to read as follows:
     3    §  230-e. 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-y
     8  to read as follows:
     9    §  2805-y.  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.
                                                                   LBD03292-03-6