Bill Text: NY A02478 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a pilot program for the dispensing of hearing aids in the county of Westchester.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to higher education [A02478 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02478-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2478

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 26, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Higher Education

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the public health law, in relation to establishing a
          pilot program for the dispensing of hearing  aids  in  the  county  of
          Westchester;  and  providing  for  the  repeal of such provisions upon
          expiration thereof

          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 article 18
     2  to read as follows:

     3                                 ARTICLE 18
     4              DISPENSING OF HEARING AIDS; COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER
     5  Section 1800. Dispensing of hearing aids; county of Westchester.
     6    §  1800.  Dispensing  of  hearing  aids; county of Westchester. 1. The
     7  county of Westchester shall  establish  and  implement  a  comprehensive
     8  pilot  program to provide for the dispensing of hearing aids pursuant to
     9  the provisions of this section. Such pilot program shall continue for  a
    10  period of five years after the effective date of the chapter of the laws
    11  of two thousand twenty-three that added this article.
    12    2.  An audiologist or hearing aid dispenser licensed under article one
    13  hundred fifty-nine of the education law employed by an  otolaryngologist
    14  practicing otolaryngology in the county of Westchester who has conducted
    15  a  medical  evaluation  of  hearing  loss  may dispense hearing aids for
    16  profit provided that the otolaryngologist who has  conducted  a  medical
    17  evaluation of hearing loss provides to the patient a list containing the
    18  name  and office location of five hearing aid dispensers with a place of
    19  business located within the county of Westchester and a  written  state-
    20  ment disclosing that the otolaryngologist's office will receive a profit
    21  from the sale of any hearing aid device.
    22    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    23  have become a law and shall expire and be deemed repealed 5 years  after
    24  such date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05255-01-3