| NY | S08097 | Engross
50% | Directs the commissioner of health to establish a blood clot and pulmonary embolism policy workgroup.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-07
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| NY | S07779 | Engross
50% | Creates a community doula expansion grant program to support community-based doulas and community-based doula organizations; provides funding for recruitment, training, certification, supporting, and/or mentoring of community-based doulas.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
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| NY | S09115 | Engross
50% | Grants authority to a hospice medical director or a physician designated by such director, to sign a death certificate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
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| NY | S08412 | Engross
50% | Directs that at least ten percent of funds from the opioid stewardship fund shall be invested in recovery services and supports; requires an annual report to the legislature regarding funds distributed from the opioid stewardship fund; makes the opio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
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| NY | S00505 | Engross
50% | Expands the health department's review of correctional health services by including a biennial study of health care staffing at facilities operated by the department of corrections and community supervision.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
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| NY | S09353 | Engross
50% | Repeals provisions requiring reporting of a patient's drug use.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
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| NY | S08987 | Engross
50% | Makes various provisions regarding establishment of a hospital: provides that any person and various other listed entities (i.e., partnership, company, stockholder, member, corporation or other entity) with authority to operate a hospital, shall be s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
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| NY | S07507 | Engross
50% | Relates to orders not to resuscitate and the applicability of the family health care decisions act to residents of mental hygiene hospitals patients who lack decision-making capacity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
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| NY | S02079 | Engross
50% | Requires food service establishments to permit the use of reusable beverage and food containers provided by customers when requesting a beverage refill or requesting leftovers from a partially consumed meal to be packaged and post signs to inform cus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
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| NY | S03529 | Engross
50% | Restricts certain substances from being used in menstrual products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
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| NY | S08907 | Engross
50% | Direct the department of health to complete a report of the impact of hospital closures on healthcare access in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
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| NY | S04467 | Engross
50% | Clarifies the standard for intentional discrimination or retaliation claims by requiring a person or persons prove that an unlawful motivation was a motivating factor and not "the sole motivating factor" or a "but-for cause" of the challenged treatme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-06
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| NY | S04792 | Engross
50% | Requires a utilization review of a request for nursing home care after an inpatient hospital admission to be completed within 24 hours of the request.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-05
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| NY | S08617 | Engross
50% | Directs the state energy planning board to conduct a study on time frames for replacing or upgrading battery energy storage systems at renewable energy facilities in preparation for clean energy storage and distribution across the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-05
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| NY | S03227 | Engross
50% | Prohibits health insurers, health care plans and HMOs from requiring prior authorization for pre-exposure prophylaxis used to prevent HIV infection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-05
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| NY | S07874 | Engross
50% | Establishes a state frontotemporal degeneration registry; designates frontotemporal degeneration and related dementias as diseases required to be reported in the state; establishes a frontotemporal degeneration registry advisory committee to assist i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-05
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| NY | S04881 | Engross
50% | Increases the amount of the savings exemption for eligibility for Medicaid.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-05
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| NY | S02894 | Engross
50% | Restores medical futility as a basis for DNR.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-05
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| NY | S07769 | Engross
50% | Requires medical records to be made available to patients in an electronic format through a web portal and in a format that allows patients to save records to their own device.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
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| NY | S08933 | Engross
50% | Relates to notice requirement of adult care facility closures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
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| NY | S09344 | Engross
50% | Enacts the lab services accessibility act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
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| NY | S06044 | Engross
50% | Establishes fetal and infant mortality review boards to study fetal and infant mortality and morbidity and make recommendations on policies, best practices, and strategies to reduce fetal and infant mortality and morbidity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
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| NY | S08849 | Engross
50% | Relates to requiring CPR and AED training by youth league coaches; requires youth league coaches to be trained in adult and child CPR and the use of an automated external defibrillator; provides current coaches have one year from the effective date o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-04
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| NY | S09140 | Engross
50% | Directs the department of health to conduct a study relating to opening a new hospital in southeast Queens; requires the department of health to deliver a copy of the findings of the study conducted and any legislative recommendations to the governor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-06-03
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| NY | S06460 | Engross
50% | Prohibits the establishment of new for-profit hospices or increasing the capacity of existing for-profit hospices.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
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| NY | S04890 | Engross
50% | Requires chain restaurants to place an icon on menus next to food items that have a high content of sodium.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
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| NY | S03536 | Engross
50% | Prohibits the packaging, sale and distribution of confectionery and candy designed to resemble a tobacco product.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-30
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| NY | S05060 | Engross
50% | Establishes that the council on human blood and transfusion services shall review all current medical research and guidance regarding the donation of blood by patients with a history of Lyme or tick-borne illnesses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
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| NY | S07023 | Engross
50% | Strengthens protections for patients regarding sexual misconduct by medical providers; requires medical expert consultants involved in investigations disclose conflicts of interest and to not be under investigation, on warning, or on probation; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
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| NY | S02933 | Engross
50% | Requires that a copy of every assessment or evaluation conducted to determine a recipient's need for home care assistance shall be promptly provided to the recipient or the recipient's designee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
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| NY | S05122 | Engross
50% | Establishes a uniform ambulance assessment fee on the annual revenues of certain ambulance services to be expended for increasing medical assistance payment rates for ambulance services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
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| NY | S01159 | Engross
50% | Requires disclosure of information concerning non-invasive prenatal screening for chromosomal abnormalities including the benefits and limitations of non-invasive prenatal testing, the difference between non-invasive prenatal testing and prenatal dia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
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| NY | S07882 | Engross
50% | Prohibits the sale of vape products that resemble school supplies, toys, or are packaged or advertised in any way to appeal to or target minors or the youth population.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
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| NY | S01193 | Engross
50% | Ensures ovarian cancer survivors have the right to access screenings for health conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-29
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| NY | S00721 | Engross
50% | Creates a temporary state commission to study and make recommendations concerning the incidence of asthma in the borough of the Bronx in New York city.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-28
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| NY | S02776 | Engross
50% | Expands the healthcare services provided by telehealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-21
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| NY | S03348 | Engross
50% | Refers individuals to appropriate service providers that are able to provide services to such individual within seventy-two hours for substance use disorders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
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| NY | S00062 | Engross
50% | Relates to the reporting of lyme and tick-borne disease infection after death.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
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| NY | S00985 | Engross
50% | Provides for the appointment of the state medicaid director by the governor subject to confirmation by the senate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-16
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| NY | S02463 | Engross
50% | Directs the department of health to create an informational pamphlet regarding the laparoscopic power morcellation surgery technique.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-14
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| NY | S02995 | Engross
50% | Enacts the "Shepherd Patterson law"; requires a physician who treats a minor patient with a medical condition that may cause a disability to provide certain educational information to such patient's parents or guardians indicating such minor is entit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
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| NY | S04922 | Engross
50% | Prohibits approved organizations providing coverage under the child health insurance plan from discriminating against health care providers which do not participate in the organization's health care network.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
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| NY | S02472 | Engross
50% | Provides for third trimester syphilis testing in addition to such testing in the first trimester.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
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| NY | S00147 | Engross
50% | Requires potable water testing at state and local parks at least once every three years and any finding of lead contamination must be abated within ninety days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-18
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| NY | S03221 | Engross
50% | Establishes the statewide fibroid study program to study fibroids, the treatment of fibroids, potential barriers to the access of treatment for fibroids, and differences in symptoms and access to treatment for women of color.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
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| NY | S00134 | Engross
50% | Relates to requiring a medical facility or related service to obtain express prior written consent before filming and/or broadcasting of visual images of a patient's medical treatment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
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| NY | S00319 | Engross
50% | Requires anti-bias training for every medical student, medical resident and physician assistant student in the state; requires the department of health to make an annual report on the implementation and effectiveness of such training.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
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| NY | S00506 | Engross
50% | Enacts "Vincent Scheppa's law" authorizing, in certain cases, the provision of private duty nursing services to a medical assistance recipient by a relative who is a registered professional nurse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
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| NY | S04786 | Engross
50% | Enacts the "New York affordable drug manufacturing act" to direct the commissioner of health to enter into partnerships to increase competition, lower prices, and address shortages in the market for generic prescription drugs, to reduce the cost of p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
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| NY | S03219 | Engross
50% | Establishes a uterine fibroids awareness and education program on the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of uterine fibroids and the elevated risk for minority women.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
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