New York Assembly Bill 1673 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-1)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2009 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-06-16 - reported referred to rules
Pending: Assembly Rules Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

The public health law is amended by adding a new 2805-u to require health care providers to inform their patients of errors in diagnosis, treatment or other service by the provider that the provider knows or reasonably should know has caused substantial harm or risk of harm to the patient.

Requires health care providers (i.e., an entity licensed/certified under certain articles of the public health law or the mental hygiene law, a health care practitioner licensed/registered/certified under title eight of the education law, or a provider of pharmaceutical products/services or durable medical equipment) to disclose errors in diagnosis, treatment or other services that the provider knows has caused substantial harm or significant risk of substantial harm; provides there shall be a rebuttable presumption that the provider knew of the error and the harm or risk of harm if, under the circumstances, the provider reasonably should have had knowledge thereof; provides such disclosure shall be made within a reasonable period of time and be reasonably understandable.

Asm. James Brennan [D]	Asm. William Colton [D]	Asm. Jeffrey Dinowitz [D]	Asm. Sandra Galef [D]
Asm. David Gantt [D]	Asm. Richard Gottfried [D]	Asm. Earlene Hooper [D]	Asm. Rhoda Jacobs [D]
Asm. William Magnarelli [D]	Asm. Nettie Mayersohn [D]	Asm. John McEneny [D]	Asm. Joel Miller [R]
Asm. Amy Paulin [D]	Asm. Nick Perry [D]	Asm. Audrey Pheffer [D]	Asm. Adam Powell [D]
Asm. Helene Weinstein [D]	Asm. Keith Wright [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-06-16		reported referred to rules
2010-02-09		print number 1673a
2010-02-09		amend and recommit to codes
2010-02-02		reported referred to codes
2010-01-06		referred to health
2009-01-22		reported referred to codes
2009-01-07		referred to health

S07526 (Same As) 2010-04-19 - REFERRED TO HEALTH

Type	Source
Summary	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A01673&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A01673&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#A01673A