Bill Text: NY S05454 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires cytomegalovirus screening for every newborn by administration of a urine polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-21 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S05454 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S05454-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5454

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 21, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. COMRIE, JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend public health law, in relation to requiring  cytomegalo-
          virus screening for every newborn

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (h) of subdivision 1 of  section  2500-a  of  the
     2  public  health  law,  as  amended by chapter 730 of the laws of 2021, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (h) [With regard to any  newborn  infant  who  is  identified  as,  or
     5  suspected  of,  having  a  hearing impairment as a result of a screening
     6  conducted pursuant to section  twenty-five  hundred-g  of  this  title,]
     7  Cytomegalovirus  using a urine polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test [for
     8  cytomegalovirus, unless the  parent  of  the  infant  objects  thereto];
     9  provided that if the commissioner determines that another test for cyto-
    10  megalovirus  is  diagnostically  equivalent  to or better than the urine
    11  polymerase chain reaction test,  the  commissioner  may,  by  regulation
    12  under this section, allow or require the use of that other test.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    14  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    15  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    16  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
    17  completed on or before such effective date.



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