Bill Text: NY A05470 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Adds glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase or G6PD deficiency to the list of required neonatal screenings.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-20 - enacting clause stricken [A05470 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A05470-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5470
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 22, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. TOWNS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to neonatal testing
for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD deficiency)
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 2500-a of the public health law,
2 as amended by chapter 863 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 (a) It shall be the duty of the administrative officer or other person
5 in charge of each institution caring for infants twenty-eight days or
6 less of age and the person required in pursuance of the provisions of
7 section forty-one hundred thirty of this chapter to register the birth
8 of a child, to cause to have administered to every such infant or child
9 in its or his care a test for phenylketonuria, homozygous sickle cell
10 disease, hypothyroidism, branched-chain ketonuria, galactosemia, homo-
11 cystinuria, GLUCOSE-6-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE (G6PD DEFICIENCY) and such
12 other diseases and conditions as may from time to time be designated by
13 the commissioner in accordance with rules or regulations prescribed by
14 the commissioner. Testing, the recording of the results of such tests,
15 tracking, follow-up reviews and educational activities shall be
16 performed at such times and in such manner as may be prescribed by the
17 commissioner. The commissioner shall promulgate regulations setting
18 forth the manner in which information describing the purposes of the
19 requirements of this section shall be disseminated to parents or a guar-
20 dian of the infant tested.
21 S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
22 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
23 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
24 tation of this act on its effective date is authorized and directed to
25 be made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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