Bill Text: NY A01124 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides that health care decisions regarding routine medical treatment for adult patients without surrogates are not required to be reviewed by an ethics committee.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-12-12 - signed chap.622 [A01124 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01124-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1124
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 14, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  decisions  about
          routine  medical  treatment  for  hospice patients without a surrogate
          decision maker
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph (c) of subdivision 5-a of section 2994-g of the
     2  public health law, as added by chapter 430  of  the  laws  of  2017,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (c)  The  ethics review committee of the general hospital, residential
     5  health care facility or hospice, as applicable, including at  least  one
     6  physician  or  nurse  practitioner  who  is  not the patient's attending
     7  physician or attending nurse  practitioner,  or  a  court  of  competent
     8  jurisdiction, must review the decision and determine that it is consist-
     9  ent  with such standards for surrogate decisions. This requirement shall
    10  not apply to decisions about routine medical treatment.  Such  decisions
    11  shall be governed by subdivision three of this section.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03525-01-9
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