Bill Text: NY A07052 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the department of health to update physician profiles for electronic access at least once every ninety days with respect to proceedings for medical misconduct and actions for medical malpractice.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to health [A07052 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A07052-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7052
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    April 30, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M.  of A. SIMOTAS, COOK, RIVERA, ZEBROWSKI, MONTESANO --
         Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GIBSON, HEASTIE, McKEVITT -- read  once
         and referred to the Committee on Health
       AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to electronic access
         to physician profiles
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision 9 of section 2995-a of the public health law,
    2  as added by chapter 542 of the laws of  2000,  is  amended  to  read  as
    3  follows:
    4    9.  The department shall, in addition to hard copy physician profiles,
    5  provide for electronic access  to  and  copying  of  physician  profiles
    6  developed  pursuant to this section through the system commonly known as
    7  the Internet. SUCH ELECTRONIC ACCESS  TO  PHYSICIAN  PROFILES  SHALL  BE
    8  UPDATED  AT  LEAST  ONCE  EVERY  NINETY  DAYS TO REFLECT CHANGES TO SUCH
    9  PROFILES WITH RESPECT TO PROCEEDINGS FOR MEDICAL MISCONDUCT AND  ACTIONS
   10  FOR MEDICAL MALPRACTICE. SUCH PHYSICIAN PROFILES SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE
   11  IN  ENGLISH  AND OTHER SUCH LANGUAGES THAT THE COMMISSIONER DEEMS APPRO-
   12  PRIATE.
   13    S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
   14  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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