Bill Text: NY A07872 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires health care practitioners to offer health care proxy information to palliative care patients.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-11-22 - signed chap.471 [A07872 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07872-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7872

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 7, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health

        AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to providing health
          care proxy information to palliative care patients

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (b)  of subdivision 2 of section 2997-c of the
     2  public health law, as amended by chapter 256 of the  laws  of  2012,  is
     3  amended and a new paragraph (c) is added to read as follows:
     4    (b)  information  regarding other appropriate treatment options should
     5  the patient wish to initiate or continue curative treatment. The  infor-
     6  mation  and  counseling  may be provided orally or in writing. Where the
     7  patient lacks capacity to reasonably understand and make informed choic-
     8  es relating to palliative care, the attending health  care  practitioner
     9  shall  provide information and counseling under this section to a person
    10  with authority to make  health  care  decisions  for  the  patient.  The
    11  attending health care practitioner may arrange for information and coun-
    12  seling under this section to be provided by another professionally qual-
    13  ified individual[.], and
    14    (c)  information  and  counseling  regarding  benefits of completing a
    15  health care proxy and appointing a health care  agent.  A  copy  of  the
    16  newly  completed or existing health care proxy shall be requested by the
    17  health care practitioner and  made  a  part  of  the  patient's  medical
    18  record.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10636-01-3