Bill Text: NY A00989 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to accessibility to bone marrow registry information and the effectiveness thereof.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-02-16 - signed chap.31 [A00989 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A00989-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 989 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 6, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to accessibility to bone marrow registry information; and to amend a chapter of the laws of 2020, amending the public health law relating to requiring the department of health to develop and disseminate information regarding bone marrow donor programs and authorizing physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners to provide such information to patients, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 6705 and A. 5370-A, in relation to the effectiveness thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 4369 of the public health law, as added by a chap- 2 ter of the laws of 2020, amending the public health law relating to 3 requiring the department of health to develop and disseminate informa- 4 tion regarding bone marrow donor programs and authorizing physicians, 5 physician assistants and nurse practitioners to provide such information 6 to patients, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 6705 and A. 7 5370-A, is amended to read as follows: 8 § 4369. Bone marrow registry information. 1. The commissioner, in 9 consultation with health care practitioners and others with expertise in 10 bone marrow donation and transplant and with the assistance of the tran- 11 splant council as appropriate, shall develop and make available informa- 12 tion regarding bone marrow donation and registries, including but not 13 limited to the National Marrow Donor Program "Be The Match Registry" 14 registry and The Bone Marrow Foundation. Such information shall include, 15 but not be limited to: 16 (a) the need for bone marrow donations; 17 (b) patient populations that would benefit from bone marrow donations; 18 (c) how to join [the] a bone marrow registry; and 19 (d) how to acquire a free buccal swab kit from a bone marrow registry. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07135-01-1A. 989 2 1 2. The information required by this section shall be made available 2 [to the public by the commissioner] on the department's website [and3through other means determined by the commissioner. The information4shall also be provided by the commissioner to physicians, physician5assistants and nurse practitioners providing primary care for dissem-6ination under subdivision three of this section.73. Each physician, physician assistant and nurse practitioner provid-8ing primary care may inquire of new patients who are eighteen years of9age or older and under forty-five years of age on their new patient10intake form as to whether the patient is registered with the bone marrow11registry. If the patient states that he or she is not registered with12the bone marrow registry, the physician, physician assistant or nurse13practitioner providing primary care shall provide information developed14and disseminated by the department regarding the bone marrow registry to15the patient] in a printable format to allow the public to access such 16 information and for health care practitioners providing primary care to 17 provide such information to patients who are eighteen years of age or 18 older and under forty-five years of age who are not registered with a 19 bone marrow registry. 20 § 2. Section 2 of a chapter of the laws of 2020, amending the public 21 health law relating to requiring the department of health to develop and 22 disseminate information regarding bone marrow donor programs and author- 23 izing physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners to 24 provide such information to patients, as proposed in legislative bills 25 numbers S. 6705 and A. 5370-A, is amended to read as follows: 26 § 2. This act shall take effect [on the first of January next succeed-27ing the date upon which] one year after it shall have become a law. 28 Effective immediately [the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule29or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effec-30tive date are authorized to be made and completed on or before], the 31 commissioner of health may make regulations and take other actions 32 reasonably necessary to implement this act on such date. 33 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 34 section one of this act shall take effect on the same date and in the 35 same manner as section 1 of a chapter of the laws of 2020, amending the 36 public health law relating to requiring the department of health to 37 develop and disseminate information regarding bone marrow donor programs 38 and authorizing physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners 39 to provide such information to patients, as proposed in legislative 40 bills numbers S. 6705 and A. 5370-A, takes effect.