Bill Text: NY A06191 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the "Shepherd Patterson law"; requires a physician who treats a minor patient with a medical condition that may cause a disability to provide certain educational information to such patient's parents or guardians indicating such minor is entitled to a free and appropriate public education as defined under section five hundred four of the federal rehabilitation act of nineteen hundred seventy-three; makes related provisions.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to health [A06191 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06191-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6191

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 10, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring a physi-
          cian who treats a minor patient with a life-threatening medical condi-
          tion to provide certain  educational  information  to  such  patient's
          parents or guardians

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

     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as  the  "Shepherd
     2  Patterson law".
     3    §  2.  The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2500-m
     4  to read as follows:
     5    § 2500-m.  Minor  patient  with  life-threatening  medical  condition.
     6  Every physician who treats a patient under the age of eighteen who has a
     7  life-threatening medical condition shall provide oral and written infor-
     8  mation  to  such  patient's  parents, guardians or persons in a parental
     9  relationship, indicating that such minor  is  entitled  to  a  free  and
    10  appropriate  public education as defined under section five hundred four
    11  of the federal rehabilitation act of nineteen hundred seventy-three,  as
    12  amended,  which includes accommodations for the delivery of programs and
    13  services for  eligible  students.  Such  written  information  shall  be
    14  provided  upon  each  of the patient's medical appointments and shall be
    15  used to inform the parent, guardian or person in a parental relationship
    16  of their right to request a section five hundred  four  designation  and
    17  the benefits of sharing potentially life-saving emergency medical infor-
    18  mation  with school personnel. The department shall develop such written
    19  information required under this section for distribution by physicians.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    21  have  become  a  law.    Effective  immediately, the addition, amendment
    22  and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
    23  of this act on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to  be  made  and
    24  completed on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03447-02-1