Bill Text: NY A00127 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes certain audiologists and hearing aid dispensers to dispense hearing aids for a profit.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 33-10)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-02 - held for consideration in higher education [A00127 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A00127-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         127--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BUCHWALD, ABINANTI, SIMON, SKOUFIS, PALUMBO,
          SALADINO, FRIEND, GALEF, GUNTHER, ARROYO,  LAVINE,  BRINDISI,  CRESPO,
          STIRPE,  QUART,  KAMINSKY, SEAWRIGHT, DILAN, TITONE, FINCH, McDONOUGH,
          NOJAY, LIFTON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, LOPEZ,  ROBIN-
          SON, SCHIMEL, SOLAGES, THIELE, WALKER -- read once and referred to the
          Committee  on  Consumer Affairs and Protection -- reference changed to
          the Committee on Higher Education -- recommitted to the  Committee  on
          Higher Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- commit-
          tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
          mitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the general business  law,  in  relation  to  permitting
          certain  audiologists  and  hearing aid dispensers to dispense hearing
          aids for a profit
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Section 802 of the general business law, as added by chap-
     2  ter 599 of the laws of 1998, subdivision 1 as designated and subdivision
     3  2 as added by chapter 301 of the laws of 2000, is  amended  to  read  as
     4  follows:
     5    §  802.  Special  provisions;  not-for-profit sales. 1. [No] Except as
     6  provided in subdivision three of this section,  no  otolaryngologist  or
     7  other licensed physician who has conducted a medical evaluation of hear-
     8  ing  loss  shall engage in the business of dispensing hearing aids for a
     9  profit.  No  otolaryngologist  or  other  licensed  physician  who   has
    10  dispensed  a  hearing  aid  shall  refuse  or fail to perform repairs or
    11  service on any hearing aid that they have dispensed.
    12    2. Every licensed physician who engages in the dispensing  of  hearing
    13  aids in compliance with the provisions of this section shall be required
    14  to  comply with sections seven hundred ninety-one, seven hundred ninety-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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