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 ________________________________________________________________________ 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