Bill Text: NY S07883 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for the establishment of a registry system for medical orders for life-sustaining treatment (MOLST) and provides for use of such forms as an alternative to a nonhospital order not to resuscitate.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-20 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S07883 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07883-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7883
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 20, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  FUNKE  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the  establishment
          of  a registry system for medical orders for life-sustaining treatment
          (MOLST)
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  2994-dd  of  the public health law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     3    7. Medical orders for life-sustaining treatment (MOLST) means  medical
     4  orders  to  provide, withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment. The
     5  MOLST form is the alternative form authorized by the commissioner  under
     6  subdivision five of this section. The MOLST form and guidance and check-
     7  lists  for  using the MOLST form for any patient in any setting shall be
     8  posted on the department's website.
     9    § 2. Section 2994-dd of the public health law  is  amended  by  adding
    10  four new subdivisions 8, 9, 10 and 11 to read as follows:
    11    8.  Establishment  of  system.  (a) The department or the department's
    12  designee shall, in accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this  section,
    13  establish and maintain an electronic system for collecting, maintaining,
    14  and  transmitting  MOLST  forms authorized under subdivision six of this
    15  section, to be known as the New York State eMOLST Registry.
    16    (b) The registry shall be designed  to  accept  physician  order  form
    17  DOH-5003  MOLST  and the electronic version of DOH-5003 MOLST ("eMOLST")
    18  completed by a licensed physician.
    19    (c) The department shall establish and implement such protocols as are
    20  reasonably  necessary  to  ensure  that  information   transmitted   and
    21  contained  in  the  registry  is maintained in a secure and confidential
    22  manner and is accessible only by users designated by the department  and
    23  available  in  an emergency. Such protocols shall include a mechanism to
    24  monitor and record access to the registry.
    25    9. Duty to submit to registry. Any health care provider who  completes
    26  and  signs a medical order form DOH-5003 MOLST or the electronic version
    27  of DOH-5003 MOLST ("eMOLST") shall submit a copy of the completed  MOLST
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  form  to  the eMOLST Registry within fourteen days of completion of such
     2  form in accordance with protocols established by the department.
     3    10. Operation of the registry established by this section shall not be
     4  funded,  in  whole  or  in  part,  by fees imposed specifically for such
     5  purposes upon practitioners or patients using MOLST.
     6    11. The commissioner shall promulgate such rules  and  regulations  as
     7  are necessary to effectuate the provisions of this section.
     8    §  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately; provided, however,
     9  section two of this act shall take effect on the  first  of  April  next
    10  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.