Bill Text: NY A06472 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires physicians and hospitals to obtain the name of the school attended by school-aged patients and to include this information in their admission registration forms.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A06472 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A06472-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6472 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 11, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CHANDLER-WATERMAN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring physi- cians and hospitals to obtain the name of the school attended by school-aged patients and to include this information in their admis- sion registration forms 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 2 230-f to read as follows: 3 § 230-f. Registration requirements. Every physician shall inquire and 4 document as part of his or her patient registration, the name and 5 address of the school attended by such physician's school-aged patients 6 and include such information in the patients' medical registration form. 7 § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2805-aa 8 to read as follows: 9 § 2805-aa. Admission registration requirements. All general hospitals 10 shall inquire and document the name and address of the school attended 11 by school-aged patients upon admission, and include such information on 12 the hospitals' admission registration form. 13 § 3. This act shall take effect one year after the date upon which it 14 shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02633-01-3
