Bill Text: NY A01665 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to creating autism teams in hospitals; requires the department of health to design a pilot program to develop one "autism team" who may be called upon should a patient with autism come to a hospital; provides that members of the autism team shall be knowledgeable about autism and communication difficulties many people with autism have and advise physicians and other staff on how to communicate with patients with autism.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to higher education [A01665 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01665-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1665

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  creating  autism
          teams in hospitals

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  2831 to read as follows:
     3    §  2831.  Autism teams. 1. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation
     4  to the contrary, to expand current medical  providers'  knowledge  about
     5  autism,  the department shall design and provide specialized training on
     6  autism through medical continuing education programs  for  primary  care
     7  physicians,   neurologists,   psychiatrists,  dentists,  emergency  room
     8  personnel and other medical specialists.
     9    2. Once the training on autism is implemented,  the  department  shall
    10  design  a  pilot program to ultimately develop one "autism team" who may
    11  be called upon should a patient with autism enter the emergency room  of
    12  a hospital, need tests or x-rays, or need to be admitted. Members of the
    13  autism  team shall have completed the specialized training on autism and
    14  shall be knowledgeable about autism and communication difficulties  many
    15  people  with autism have and advise physicians and other staff on how to
    16  communicate with patients with autism.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    18  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    19  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    20  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    21  on or before such effective date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03156-01-3