Bill Text: NY A00587 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires urine polymerase chain reaction testing for cytomegalovirus of newborns with hearing impairments; and directs the department of health to establish an education program for women who may become pregnant, expectant parents and parents of infants relating to various aspects of cytomegalovirus.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 24-4)

Status: (Passed) 2018-10-02 - signed chap.307 [A00587 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A00587-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         587--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 9, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL,  ORTIZ,  ZEBROWSKI, SANTABARBARA,
          GUNTHER, CARROLL, GALEF, NIOU, DINOWITZ,  BLAKE,  SEAWRIGHT,  SOLAGES,
          HARRIS  --  Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.  of  A. BUCHWALD, ENGLEBRIGHT,
          GJONAJ, HYNDMAN, LUPARDO, NOLAN, SIMON, STECK, THIELE -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on  Health  --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  the  testing  of
          certain newborns for cytomegalovirus and public education thereon
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 2500-a of the public health law,
     2  as amended by chapter 184 of the laws of 2013, is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    (a) It shall be the duty of the administrative officer or other person
     5  in  charge  of  each institution caring for infants twenty-eight days or
     6  less of age and the person required in pursuance of  the  provisions  of
     7  section  forty-one  hundred thirty of this chapter to register the birth
     8  of a child, to cause to have administered to every such infant or  child
     9  in  its  or  his care a test for phenylketonuria, homozygous sickle cell
    10  disease, hypothyroidism, branched-chain ketonuria,  galactosemia,  homo-
    11  cystinuria,  critical  congenital  heart  defects through pulse oximetry
    12  screening, and with regard to any newborn infant who is  identified  as,
    13  or  suspected of, having a hearing impairment as a result of a screening
    14  conducted pursuant to section twenty-five hundred-g of this title, cause
    15  to be administered to such infant a test for cytomegalovirus, unless the
    16  parent of the infant objects thereto, and such other diseases and condi-
    17  tions as may from time to time be  designated  by  the  commissioner  in
    18  accordance  with  rules  or  regulations prescribed by the commissioner.
    19  Testing, the recording of the results of such tests, tracking, follow-up
    20  reviews and educational activities shall be performed at such times  and
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01942-03-7
        A. 587--A                           2
     1  in such manner as may be prescribed by the commissioner. The commission-
     2  er shall promulgate regulations setting forth the manner in which infor-
     3  mation describing the purposes of the requirements of this section shall
     4  be disseminated to parents or a guardian of the infant tested.
     5    §  2.  The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2500-1
     6  to read as follows:
     7    § 2500-1. Cytomegalovirus public education. 1.  The  department  shall
     8  develop  and  publish  informational  materials for women who may become
     9  pregnant, expectant parents and parents of infants regarding:
    10    (a) the incidence of cytomegalovirus;
    11    (b) the transmission and risks of cytomegalovirus  to  pregnant  women
    12  and women who may become pregnant;
    13    (c) birth defects caused by congenital cytomegalovirus;
    14    (d) methods of diagnosing congenital cytomegalovirus;
    15    (e)  the available preventive measures to avoid the infection of women
    16  who are pregnant or may become pregnant; and
    17    (f) available methods of treating cytomegalovirus and resources avail-
    18  able for families of children born with cytomegalovirus.
    19    2. The department shall publish the information required  pursuant  to
    20  subdivision  one of this section on its internet website, and distribute
    21  information regarding birth defects,  treatment  and  resources  to  all
    22  hospitals  performing  cytomegalovirus testing pursuant to section twen-
    23  ty-five hundred-a of this title.
    24    3. The department may promulgate rules to implement  the  purposes  of
    25  this section.
    26    §  3.  This act shall take effect immediately; except that section one
    27  of this act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after  it
    28  shall  have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediately,
    29  the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or  regulation  neces-
    30  sary  for the implementation of section one of this act on its effective
    31  date are authorized and directed to be made and completed on  or  before
    32  such effective date.